is it possible gain sustenance from eating your own non-vitale body parts?

Question

In a wilderness survival situation. Your ears, fingers, etc.

Answer 1

Sure it is. Meat is meat, protein is protein.

Can't say I'd particularly recommend that solution, though.

Answer 2

I read a short story like this once. It may have been a Stephen King. I guy was stranded on an island and he started eating himself. He eventually died.

Answer 3

Yes. But eventually you will die of blood loss, disease, or rickets. You can't simply live on meat.

Answer 4

i guess.....iv neva tried