Would you eat another person?

[Ari]

If you were stranded and knew you would die if you did not eat?  I ask this because I was recently reminded about that soccer or rugby team that crashed in the Alps (I think) back in the '70s.  They all would have perished if they did not eat their fellow teammates who were killed in the initial plane crash.  Personally, I think I would rather die, though hopefully I will never be faced with such a tragic situation.  Moreover, human meat is not kosher, and I assume it's pretty high in cholesterol. 

[kellymaureen]

No, I saw the movie about this, it was called Alive....I dont think I could, but I suppose Ive never been faced with a life and death situation, guess you only know for sure if it happens

[MasterWolf1]

These questions are getting crazy!  What ar we now Silence of the Lamb? LOL! 

[HiWarp]

It's hard to say what a desperate person is capable of doing but I'd like to think that if I were in that situation, you could start measuring me for a pine box.  I do not think I would resort to canibalism.

[kellymaureen]

In the movie they seemed a little delirious from the hunger, were seeing things etc...I think it made them temporarily crazy.

[Erica]

No, I saw the movie about this, it was called Alive....I dont think I could, but I suppose Ive never been faced with a life and death situation, guess you only know for sure if it happens

Kelly, you said the same thing I was going to say. I remember seeing 'ALIVE" and I think that in dire consequences, I'd have no choice...hoever, I'd wrestle and kill a wild polarbear for fur and food before eating my best friend. lol

[kellymaureen]

Exactly, there was snow to melt, for water, they were hydrated, but the hunger did make them crazy....i cant recall if there were any animals around.

[MasterWolf1]

If it ment survival thats a tough call cause I wouldn't want to be someone else's dinner, I don't eat McDonalds cause you do not know what they put in those barf burgers.

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

I choose #2. If its life and death, you have to prevent your own death. (even if you want to die you are commanded to live and have to act accordingly.) It probably would be disgusting but its survival and all kosher issues are put aside since you have to survive.

[Erica]

If it ment survival thats a tough call cause I wouldn't want to be someone else's dinner, I don't eat McDonalds cause you do not know what they put in those barf burgers.

Probably schvartza meat!

In Israel, someone once said they sell cat meat there. What a stupid affirmative action restaurant.

Could you be more racist?

[Eliezer Ben Avraham]

Yaac, doesn't Pikuach Nefesh override the idea of the impurity of human blood and meat?

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

Yaac, doesn't Pikuach Nefesh override the idea of the impurity of human blood and meat?

Personal Pikuah Nefesh overides everything except the 3 sins, Adultry, Murder, and Idolatry. Also Making a public Hillul Hashe-m,
 and Milhemet Mitzva but thats for the nation as a whole.

[Dr. Dan]

wait did you just watch the movie "Alive"?

i mean, if it meant I had to survive and the person was already dead and there was nothing to eat to survive, I think it would be permitted even to do that...Gd wants us to choose life in these situations...

but it's grim..and Gd forbid we ever be placed in that situation.

[Dr. Dan]

Yaac, doesn't Pikuach Nefesh override the idea of the impurity of human blood and meat?

Personal Pikuah Nefesh overides everything except the 3 sins, Adultry, Murder, and Idolatry. Also Making a public Hillul Hashem,
 and Milhemet Mitzva but thats for the nation as a whole.

exactly what i was thinking...except what is Milhemet Mitzva?

[Eliezer Ben Avraham]

Yaac, doesn't Pikuach Nefesh override the idea of the impurity of human blood and meat?

Personal Pikuah Nefesh overides everything except the 3 sins, Adultry, Murder, and Idolatry. Also Making a public Hillul Hashem,
 and Milhemet Mitzva but thats for the nation as a whole.

exactly what i was thinking...except what is Milhemet Mitzva?

A required/obligatory war.

[White Israelite]

I've heard human taste good in BBQ sauce.

[Barnes]

Someone from Mexico was accused of eating his girlfriend and maybe a prostitute. The guy was an obsessed fan of Hannibal Lector...Yikes!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7042126.stm

[Vito]

Exactly, there was snow to melt, for water, they were hydrated, but the hunger did make them crazy....i cant recall if there were any animals around.

They were at an 18,000 ft altitude, there is not enough oxygen for plant life to survive, so there won't be any animals either.

[Raulmarrio2000]

Well, when I was a little child of 11, I began to be vegetarian. My mother was afraid it may be harmful for my health, however the doctor respected my choise and took care not to give me even a medicine that might contain some animal substance.
At that time I was pagan and worshipped the Sun and Nature. My idea was that all beings were good (animals, plants), but humans were evil. So, when my mother insisted that I should eat meat, I always replied, "I'll try to eat if you let me eat the butcher first, why would I eat an innocent cow, and let the butcher alive? He would kill me if I were a cow!"
At that time I had my own garden, several palms trees b/c I sympathised with African cannibals, and Sunflowers b/c The Sun would protect my garden in case of a storm, and he wouldn't let his flower to be destroyed.
Now that I have known Hashem, I wouldn't eat human meat. But if it is a life death situation and Torah commands it for Pikuach Nefesh.......May HaShem never put me in that situation.

[Ehud]

I would absolutely eat a person if I was caught in a life or death situation.  I wouldn't hesitate at all, survival trumps nearly everything for me.  Except killing an innocent person, I don't think I would kill an innocent person if in that situation, but it's hard to tell what I would do.  If it was a retarded or person of less worth than I think I'm worth, I would probably kill that person.  I know that sounds awful, but I think that's what I would do and most people would do the same. 

What about killing a Muslim if you had to do so to survive?  I wouldn't hesitate to kill a Muslim to save my life, or even a few of them.  Maybe that's a huge sin as well, but I would still do it. 

To our Torah scholars, is there anything written about whether it would be ok to murder someone to save your life if the person you would be murdering is an enemy of the Jewish people, or isn't entirely "innocent."

[Ultra Requete]

I would absolutely eat a person if I was caught in a life or death situation.  I wouldn't hesitate at all, survival trumps nearly everything for me.  Except killing an innocent person, I don't think I would kill an innocent person if in that situation, but it's hard to tell what I would do.  If it was a retarded or person of less worth than I think I'm worth, I would probably kill that person.  I know that sounds awful, but I think that's what I would do and most people would do the same. 

What about killing a Muslim if you had to do so to survive?  I wouldn't hesitate to kill a Muslim to save my life, or even a few of them.  Maybe that's a huge sin as well, but I would still do it. 

To our Torah scholars, is there anything written about whether it would be ok to murder someone to save your life if the person you would be murdering is an enemy of the Jewish people, or isn't entirely "innocent."

You want to eat muslim meat? Yikes! think all those germs and parasites those pisslamic animals carry.
I don't know for sure what i woud do in those kind of situation; but I think they're things more important than physicall survivall; and civilised people from west shuld have more dignity and higher moral standarts  than bunch of szwartzas from Kongo or Papua New Guinea; so i voted last option.  

[newman]

In a life or death situation I sure would, but I'd kill & eat those with the lowest IQs first..............so look out shvartzas & arabs.

[newman]

No, I saw the movie about this, it was called Alive....I dont think I could, but I suppose Ive never been faced with a life and death situation, guess you only know for sure if it happens

Kelly, you said the same thing I was going to say. I remember seeing 'ALIVE" and I think that in dire consequences, I'd have no choice...hoever, I'd wrestle and kill a wild polarbear for fur and food before eating my best friend. lol

Erica, you'd eat a human in an instant!

It's in your blood!

[Dr. Dan]

I wouldn't eat a dead person if they didn't give me permission to do so after they died...and i would hope the same if I were to die before them...

[Jasmina]

Would you eat another person?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHAT KIND OF STUPID QUESTION IS THAT? IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE?