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[ChairmanPoo]

The contrary is true. Donations have increased because it's cheaper than burial. I hear some places they even pay the families of donors.

[Leafsnail]

Most people who die don't exactly have the healthiest organs at the time.

So you can think of a way to get hearts from living donors?

[penguinofhonor]

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE

[ChairmanPoo]

Actually, he has a point: most donated organs are not salvageable. Sometimes compromises can be made, though, such as transplanting a couple of less-than-functional kidneys so that overall the filtration is good enough.

[Leafsnail]

Well, yeah.  Not all organs can be donated.  Which is why we need to be all the more protective of the organs coming from people who died in ways that do not degrade their organs (generally traumatic accidents, sadly).

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Cannibalism is a taboo because we say it is. Of course there are many good reasons not to in the first place and the posture against it has been cultivated into humans for a very good reason but in a either I eat a person or die situation I would certainly do it if I had something to live for.

Here is a tricky question, What about eating an animal that ate a human? I ask this because in some situation of starvation it might come up. For instance if you are trapped on some island or boat you could potentially use fellow dead humans as bait for your hooks and such.

[KaguroDraven]

If the chips where down and I would die otherwise? Yeah I'd eat another human, we may like to pretend we're special, or in some cases we aren't special and no meat should be eaten, but in the end we're just meat, water, and electrical signals flying through the body, just like every other animal we eat.

[Shambling Zombie]

I have a feeling starvation would eventually break all but the most strong-willed of people into resorting to extreme measures like cannibalism.

Although, if you are stuck on an island, lack of drinking water would probably kill you before you got that hungry.

[Urist is dead tome]

I have a feeling starvation would eventually break all but the most strong-willed of people into resorting to extreme measures like cannibalism.

Although, if you are stuck on an island, lack of drinking water would probably kill you before you got that hungry.

You could kill a man for his blood to drink.

I would pretty much only eat a human for my own survival. I would kill another man for my own survival also, if not especially.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I recall hearing that drinking human blood, even your own, will kill you via iron overdose. I don't remember where I heard that, though...

[Leafsnail]

There is a problem with disease.  Some tribes in Papua New Guinea had to stop due to a cerebral disease you get from eating brains.

[ChairmanPoo]

No, you get it from eating infected people.

[Shambling Zombie]

There is a problem with disease.  Some tribes in Papua New Guinea had to stop due to a cerebral disease you get from eating brains.

Yeah, it's a horrific disease (someone earlier in this thread posted its name) which comes from eating human brains. It makes a lot of DF syndromes look like a nice way to go.

[Knirisk]

I think I've been playing too much Space Station 13, because when I first read this, I was like, "Cannibalism is okay! We do it all the time!"

Then I realized that I was still in society, where cannibalism is not okay.

[Leafsnail]

No, you get it from eating infected people.

Well, yeah, eating brains of infected people.