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[Enemy post]

Is anybody Steam friends or something with Rethi-Eli? I started a sequel to an RTD he enjoyed about three weeks after he stopped checking the forum. I tried PMing, but he hasn't been on. I hope this isn't a rude thing to ask, it just seems like it'd be a shame if he missed the game without knowing about it.

[blazing glory]

If I write in my will that I want my body donated/given to a cannibal, is it completely legal for him to eat it after I expire?

[scriver]

In Sweden it wouldn't be. But, say, in Germany... Them Germans are weird.

[Frumple]

Depends on the jurisdiction, yeah. Some other things, too, probably. I wouldn't be surprised if family or something could veto the decision after you kicked it, ferex, even if it was otherwise legal to eat human once whatever surrounding issues were dealt with.

As always with legal questions, consult your local lawyer before expecting your unliving fleshsack will be properly consumed by cannibals according to your will.

[CABL]

Why you would want your corpse to be eaten by cannibals?

[GiglameshDespair]

Waste not want not

[Rolan7]

It's something I haven't made a decision about yet.  I personally think it's pretty cool, but I have to balance that against my family being weirded out.

It sounds like a way to give some people a unique life experience, and spiritually live on (or, more so than getting burned or unnaturally sealed in a box).  Kinda like the old open-air burials, except I return directly to humanity rather than scavengers.

Rationally it doesn't matter, except that it makes some people happy.  I'm donating my organs, same idea.  I totally understand if people feel uncomfortable about it, but I feel the opposite *shrug*

tldr; I am also curious about the legality
also what Giglamesh said

[Enemy post]

I call dibs on Rolan's intestines.

[CABL]

I would prefer cremation in case of my death, but if you want your corpse to be eaten by cannibals, your wish is your wish. Thoughts of some cannibals chewing on my (un)cooked meat is pretty creepy to me, even though I mostly don't even care about honoring dead people.

[Hanslanda]

I wouldn't want people eating me solely because they could acquire kuru or human spongiform encephalopathy. Which is bad mkay

[CABL]

I wouldn't want people eating me solely because they could acquire kuru or human spongiform encephalopathy. Which is bad mkay

Well, and I wouldn't want to cause those diseases either.

[Magistrum]

Back in my day everyone got spongiform encephalopathy all the time, and we liked it.

[TD1]

My granny tried to give me spongiform encephalopathy in soluble capsules before exams ):

[Egan_BW]

I recall watching a youtube video explaining that you can't actually have anything you want done to your body when you die. Your options pretty much amount to burial, cremation, or "science", with no control over what that last one actually means.

So no, you probably can't legally arrange for your body to be eaten by other humans.

[blazing glory]

What a shame.