Topic: When people are stranded without food, why don't they just cut off and eat their own body parts?
Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago #84,975
Clearly people can survive by amputating their own injured limbs, so it only seems logical that you would at some point decide to cut off and eat your own limbs. I bet you could survive another two months that way.
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Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 18 minutes later[^] [v] #974,501
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #974,505
No Bones About It ?
cccuuunnttt !TInYDicKMI (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 21 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #974,839
Sometimes I get pretty upset that a really high-quality, original topic of mine was ignored by YOU FUCKS.
thanks for nothing
thanks for nothing
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 20 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #974,846
@previous (cccuuunnttt !TInYDicKMI)
No one here ever ignores a high quality, original topic of yours.
No one here ever ignores a high quality, original topic of yours.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #974,953
I feel like blood loss, risk of infection, and the energy it would take to cut off a body part would really offset any potential nutritional benefits.
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beckyderp !TInYDicKMI (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #974,998
Anonymous E replied with this 7 years ago, 15 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #975,000
@previous (beckyderp !TInYDicKMI)
I feel like Neil might be the wrong guy to ask, but I would love to see his face when you ask him.
I feel like Neil might be the wrong guy to ask, but I would love to see his face when you ask him.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 54 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #975,011
@974,839 (cccuuunnttt !TInYDicKMI)
Maybe you need to make threads about transwomen, they always draw a crowd
Maybe you need to make threads about transwomen, they always draw a crowd
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #975,012
Stephen King wrote a short story about this called Survivor Type, which can be found in his collection Skeleton Crew (the same collection that has The Mist by the way, another cool story):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Type
It concerns a surgeon whose ship sinks and he washes up on an island, finally resorting to cutting pieces of himself off to eat. When King was writing the story he asked his neighbor (who is a doctor) how feasible the idea was, and the doctor said that if the guy was a surgeon, he would stand a decent chance of surviving for a long while (since the body is basically just stored energy, and if he's a doctor himself then he'll be able to handle shock quite well). You can read the full account of his conversation - and the inspiration for writing the story - in King's notes at the back of the book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Type
It concerns a surgeon whose ship sinks and he washes up on an island, finally resorting to cutting pieces of himself off to eat. When King was writing the story he asked his neighbor (who is a doctor) how feasible the idea was, and the doctor said that if the guy was a surgeon, he would stand a decent chance of surviving for a long while (since the body is basically just stored energy, and if he's a doctor himself then he'll be able to handle shock quite well). You can read the full account of his conversation - and the inspiration for writing the story - in King's notes at the back of the book.
beckyderp !TInYDicKMI (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #975,013
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 8 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #975,134
Well yeah but amputating your own limb would be an extreme endurance test and would probably kill you before you could feast