If a dead relative asked you to eat their body after they die is that Illegal??

Question

You know it is in the WILL. . . Is it Legal??

Answer 1

Here is a case that is similar to your question. The man did serve time for the act:

Armin Meiwes, a middle-aged computer technician, has wowed the court and the public with his bizarre confessions. He appeared relaxed and normal, despite the unusual nature of his crimes.

Meiwes has been charged with murder for sexual pleasure, which has a maximum sentence of 15 years. However, he claims that the man he killed in 2001, Bernd-Juergen Brandes, volunteered to be killed and eaten so there was no murder.

Here is how this unusual case began. Meiwes had advertised on the Internet for a well-built man who would consent to being killed and eaten. Meiwes says that there are over 400 cannibal web sites and chat rooms. Supposedly, more than 200 men responded favorably to his ad.

Brandes was one of them and they got together for dinner at Brandes' home in Rotenburg. It's hard to say whether Brandes had planned to serve his penis that night or whether it came up as an idea once the two men were together.

Meiwes claimed that Brandes wanted to have Meiwes cut off his penis. Meiwes then cooked the penis and they ate it together.

At some point, Meiwes stabbed Brandes and dissected him, putting parts of his body in the freezer for future consumption. These events, at least in Meiwes' mind, had enough entertainment value to record on his camcorder for future viewing.



Bernd-Juergen Brandes, victim


Perhaps this hobby could have continued had a student not seen another of Meiwes' advertisements on the Internet and alerted the police.

"Bernd came to me of his own free will to end his life," Meiwes told the court in his trial, which began December 3, 2003. "For him, it was a nice death."

Before his death Brandes consumed a large quantity of liquor and 20 or more sleeping pills.



The house where Brandes was killed


Cannibalism may not be against the law in Germany, but it guarantees one a free mental examination. What the court found out after Meiwes' psychiatric exam was very interesting. He claimed that watching horror films is what initiated the fantasies that he had as a child about eating people. Initially, he wanted to eat his school mates, he told the court.

The defense has been arguing that there was no murder because Brandes volunteered to be killed. The prosecution, however, feels that Meiwes' hobbies are very dangerous and that he should be locked up permanently.

CNN reported today that the court in Kassel ruled had no "base motives" in the crime -- sparing him a murder conviction. He has been sentenced to eight and a half years in jail. Prosecutors will appeal the verdict. The case, which has no precedent in German law, may go to the supreme court.

Answer 2

In our society, it is very illegal. By law, when a relative dies, you have to take his or her body to a licensed funeral home. Unless a medical school is picking the body up from the funeral home, the body must then be processed by the funeral home, either by embalming for burial, which means a casket, clothing and funeral arrangements or by preparing for cremation, which means burning the body and then paying for an expensive urn, and they will still try to talk you into an expensive funeral or memorial service. The reason for this is to ensure that the funeral homes make money from death. The funeral lobby has already bought their tame senators and congressmen to see to it that nothing else is legal. You can't bury them in your yard, only in a licensed cemetery. You can't have the body at your home for a wake, only at a licensed funeral home. You can't eat the body. You can't even touch the body once it's been processed by the funeral home. At death, the body belongs to the state completely, except that you, the deceased's relatives, have to pay for whatever the state decides is the only way to dispose of the body.

Answer 3

I'm not sure, it may be because it is in their will but there may be laws against being a cannibal. I recommend talking to your lawyer about it before you do anything cannibalistic.

And why are you asking this in the first place? You don't need to answer my question, just wondering.....

Answer 4

thats is sick n wrong dont yo cold die from diseases after that think dee inside yor self all thee memorys with that person you could never do that right? Probably is call and ask the police or law inforcement.

Answer 5

Depends on local laws regarding cannabilism. Most juristictions however consider cannabilism illegal regardless of consent.

Answer 6

Have them cremated and put the ashes in a salt shaker. Use sparingly. There's no time limit in the will. Bon apatite.

Answer 7

Unless you're on top of the Andes with no food,hell yes!

Answer 8

maybe in a lifeboat stranded at sea, ala Monty Python

Answer 9

I hear dead people

Answer 10

i would be more concerned that dead people are talking to me rather than fulfilling their wishes...maybe that's just me..