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You're on a desert island, starving, & your best friend lies dead but not diseased.

Would you eat your deceased best friend to survive?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 76.5%
  • No

    Votes: 4 23.5%

  • Total voters
    17
It felt to me that it was implied that you'd been there a while, say two weeks, with no hope in sight, nor much vegetation on which to survive. Otherwise your friend would likely not be dead and you'd likely not be starving.

Well the friend could have died on the safety raft floating to the deserted Island (most common way these things happen I presume).

Nonetheless, eating your friend is still a terrible idea if the meat is not cooked properly. It will only make dying that much more unpleasant and painful.
 
Well the friend could have died on the safety raft floating to the deserted Island (most common way these things happen I presume).

Nonetheless, eating your friend is still a terrible idea if the meat is not cooked properly. It will only make dying that much more unpleasant and painful.

Well have fun dying. I'll eat that **** and have a puncher's chance. Not a fighter's chance. I made that phrase up.
 
Well there isn't a single thing I WOULDN'T do for life. Life is precious, it revolves around a single key: that we fight to survive. If I have to eat another human being to do it, so be it. If I have to murder, brush the dust off my enemies' sachel, so be it. I'm ready for the consequences. I'm ready for what the glory be, glory be is like when it happens from above t
 
No, that would be idiotic. Our bodies can not consume raw meat and put it too good use. Eating your friend would probably just make you sick as hell, throw up every were and dehydrate faster.

Such as sushi, rare beef, oysters, carpaccio, tartare, etc. Raw meat would be fine in limited amounts to keep you alive for quite a while. That said, who said you couldn't dry the meat in the sun then eat it.

I say, eat him.
 
It's really hard to put yourself in a position so horrific, but I like to think I could/would.
 
I would make a raft out of my friend and try to float to safety. Also, I would kill him long before we started starving. Probably on the first day, so he wouldn't have a chance to get the idea of killing me.
 
Yes, because if they were my best friend they would want me to eat them in order to save myself.
 
One of my areas on my mission was Curico, Chile. It was about 30 miles from where the plane crashed that they eventually made the film "Alive" about. I would like to think I'm a survivor and I would eat my friend to stay alive. Better to do something gross and live than not and die. I'm sure my family would be thankful for it.
 
My belief in God affords me the ability to not really go over the top in preventing my own death, so I personally wouldn't do that. I'd just say take me big fella, help me find another route to sustain myself, or send help. At least that is how I feel right now. Maybe after I'm married and have kids or something, I'll have an attachment here that I desperately at all costs would render me in panic survival mode.
 
I would definitely struggle with it and by the time I decided what to do, the corpse would not be edible. Eating your friend does not guarantee long term survival.

For those of you survivalists who said yes, ratchet up the dilemma: It's not your best friend, it's your spouse/significant other. Now what?
 
I would definitely struggle with it and by the time I decided what to do, the corpse would not be edible. Eating your friend does not guarantee long term survival.

For those of you survivalists who said yes, ratchet up the dilemma: It's not your best friend, it's your spouse/significant other. Now what?

Even better. Ms Serp's stacked so her meat would be much tastier.
 
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