If your plane crashes and you survive, and there's nothing to eat, is it okay to eat the dead people?

Answer 1

only if there are those little packages of condiments somewhere in the wreckage.

Answer 2

Well, I think that if you are stranded long enough and you are hungry long enough the line between rigth or wrong will blur rather quickly. When we ask ourselves these kind of question we do not take into consideration many factors. One of them being that we might be too weak to make the right judgement calls. We would probably be dehydrated, injured, cold or too hot. We would also lack many essential minerals and nutrients which makes our bodies and more importantly our minds work they way they should. So, yeah! on days 1 thru 5 you may say no but by day 10 John from accounting has the best meat you have ever tasted.

One thing to take into account is that bodies decomposed fast. If you get stranded in the middle of the Andes mountains then the weather is so cold that there is no danger from bacteria. Anywhere else and the body become toxic and eating a dead corpse will be worse than trying to deal with starvation.

Anyways, If you where stranded for many many days without any food available and in bad conditions nobody will think too much of it. Remember that all living things prime directive is to survive so people will understand. Just don't start eating people simply because there is a delay and the plane is stranded on the tarmat.

Answer 3

Sure you can eat them if it's a matter of survival and you can do it without puking. It's just taking being an organ donor one step further and there are very few that scream about that being immoral. If someone is prepared to accept a kidney, liver, heart etc from a dead person to save their life, then why not a bit of left thigh?

For the people who believe that their God would send them something to eat, consider the notion that maybe he did - like a plane full of fresh meat (some possibly ready cooked even!)

Answer 4

mikedrazenhero –

It’s cool for you to choose to dietary regime, however most people in the world do not have the luxury of choosing a personal energy-consumption philosophy. And, I think you underestimate the power of everyone’s survival instinct when pushed to such an extreme as posed in the question. No one who wants to live will voluntarily starve to death when there is food available.

I have not been forced to cannibalism (I do not think), but I have been in remote places for extended periods where there were no ‘choices’ – at all. You eat what is there – even when you do not really know what it is. My vegetarian colleagues know and accept (as a simple matter of fact) that there are situations (such as, above the Arctic Circle and extreme elevations) where there are no plant foods.

Answer 5

you would be hard pressed to find a place to crash a plane where there was absolutely nothing eatable. snow covered mountains would be about the only place i could think of. and even then the plane would have had a kitchen. and likely plenty of food for 2 to 3 days.

however if there is nothing, or it is simply too hard to get to.

be considerate to the families of the victims...eat only from the upper arms and legs. that way they can still have a funeral with a viewing.

Answer 6

Yes, absolutely. The soul has left the body and therefore it is just a body, a physical object. The important thing at that point is the continued survival of those who survived the crash.

Answer 7

Hello stegokitty.. :)

It took Hades, to answer this question correctly..


Where is the faith among my brothers and sister here.. :(

Is not "faith the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen"..

Luke 12

Care and Anxiety

22 ¶ And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.



In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With ~Love~ In Christ.. :)

Answer 8

Yes. I'm sure they wouldn't mind their bodies being put to a good use. Have you seen the film 'Alive', or heard of the real-life tragedy on which the film is based? I recommend it highly.

Maybe you could ask yourself if you'd be OK with it if you were killed and another person ate your body to survive? I would not be bothered in the least, good luck to them.

Answer 9

yes it is. once they are dead they are just hunks of meat. anyone remeber the book/ movie Alive? based on a true story where they crashed in the mountians and there were no plants bugs or other things to eat? the pope actualy gave them personal absolution. it was a survival situation and a survival sutation is diffrent then say a jeffery daulmer situation were you are just sick in the head.

Answer 10

I have no idea what God's word says concerning cannibalism. That's a hard decision. It might be a sin and it might not be a sin. I don't know. But what I do know is that all sin, except the unpardonable sin, is forgivable. God understands our circumstances. Surely he may understand the necessity for cannibalism under extreme conditions such as starvation when there is no possiblity for acquiring food from other sources? Once again, I repeat, I have no idea. Good question.

Answer 11

Yes. While I am totally against killing a survivor for food (that's murder), the only thing that keeps us from eating those who have already died is a cultural tabboo. There is nothing to be gained by you starving to death. If I was one of the people who died in your plane crash, I would find it unfortuante if you ended up starving.