cannibalism

[Mungus the Foon]

is there a law against it?
would you resort to cannibalism if you had to?
i would.
what are other peoples views?

[jin]

How else are we supposed to get the fighting spirit of our enemies???

[Mungus the Foon]

so you would resort to cannibalism in fun rather than through necessity? i bet barbeques are a barrel of laughs with you.

[jin]

Or a barrel of Cheerleader legs!

[Jeanette X]

Human flesh is said to taste like very rich pork.
Just don't eat the brain. Doing so can cause a degenerative neurological disease called kuru.
There is a tribe of Amazonian Indians who, instead of burying their dead, cremate them. After the cremation, they mix the ashes into a special kind of soup, and during a very solemn ceremony, the mourning relatives drink the soup and ingest the ashes.
When asked why the do that instead of burying their dead, they found the question to be appalling.
"Bury our dead?! Why would we let the bodies of our people rot in the dank, cold ground, when we can give them a warm home in the bodies of those who love them the most?"
An interesting perspective, isn't it?

[KILLADEUCE]

That is a very interesting perspective i would completely agree.

[Jeanette X]

I want to donate my body to science, and when they are done with it, I want my remains cremated and scattered into a local river that I used to have fun playing in when I went to summer camp as a child. I'm also an organ donor.

[Zero Signal]

Originally Posted by Jeanette X

I'm also an organ donor.

So how long ago did you donate your brain?

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Zero Signal

So how long ago did you donate your brain?

Hmm, did that come off as self-rightous? I didn't mean it to sound that way. I just meant it to support my overall point, which is basically that are bodies are no good to us after we are dead, so why should we care about keeping them intact?

[AChimp]

I want to be cryogenically frozen until science can bring me back.

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by AChimp

I want to be cryogenically frozen until science can bring me back.

AChimpsicle.

[FS]

I only have enough money to have my head frozen, but I figure by the time it's defrosted they'll be able to build me a 12 feet tall robotic body that fires lightning from its bellybutton.

On a serious note, I have to wonder what will REALLY happen to people who are into cryogenics. I bet they'll end up in museums or retro clothing advertising campaigns of the year 3,000.

[Zero Signal]

Originally Posted by Jeanette X

Hmm, did that come off as self-rightous? I didn't mean it to sound that way. I just meant it to support my overall point, which is basically that are bodies are no good to us after we are dead, so why should we care about keeping them intact?

I was just making a joke. :/

[kellychaos]

Originally Posted by Jeanette X

Human flesh is said to taste like very rich pork.
Just don't eat the brain. Doing so can cause a degenerative neurological disease called kuru.

I saw a Discovery Channel documentary on that once. From what I understand, it's neurologically similiar to "Mad Cow Disease" in bovines. Cows eating cows! It's just not right, I'm tellin' ya!

[The_Rorschach]

Kelly, in your sig, it should read: Who's asking the questions.
Not Whose.

[Sergeant_Tibbs]

it doesn't seem like a person would be a very good source of food. all i could see being eaten would be the ribs, biceps, maybe the thighs (depending on how fatty they are), and forarms or calfs.

[Spectre X]

LOL at Jin on both times

[The_voice_of_reason]

Originally Posted by Jeanette X

I'm also an organ donor.

Everyone should be an organ donor. My father was saved four times by organ donors, three hearts and one kidney (the kidney was from his brother).

I find it both selfish and stupid to have some kind of post-mortem attachment to your body, I mean fuck why do you care what happens to it after your done? I want my body to be stripped of all its valuble parts which would be given to those who need them. The rest of my body will be used to fertilize crops like in The Wanting Seed.

[FS]

Three hearts? Yikes. Did his body keep rejecting them, or did he just overpower the doctors who were going to put them in someone else?

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Sergeant_Tibbs

it doesn't seem like a person would be a very good source of food. all i could see being eaten would be the ribs, biceps, maybe the thighs (depending on how fatty they are), and forarms or calfs.

Are you kidding? Human flesh would be the perfect food! It is made up of exactly what the human body needs because it IS the human body.
So VoR, what exactly did your father have? I'm curious now.

[kellychaos]

Originally Posted by The_Rorschach

Kelly, in your sig, it should read: Who's asking the questions.
Not Whose.

Good point! The "hows it going" should also read "how's it going". I cut and pasted it and never bother to look at it, I guess ... ignorance of the paste is no excuse. Your advice has been duly noted and the aforementioned shall be edited immediately.