Anonymous #6 12w

Exactly. Like if i died and explicitly said id be chill with “donating” myself and then people would rather starve than eat me??? Bro what the hell thats disrespectful AND insulting

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Anonymous #10 12w

If you wait too long you run the risk of them just rotting though, you’d have to move fast to make sure they wouldn’t go to waste. If you’re at the point that you were both dying of starvation or the elements I feel like it’s already been a few weeks of barely surviving and you’d have made up your mind already

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Anonymous #6 12w

I mean yeah, but OP said “without any other food source” which usually means organisms cant survive and thus decomp is slowed down. Specifically i was thinking about the Uruguay Air Force crash, in which this exact scenario happened. As both a biology student and as someone thats studied decomp, it really depends on the environment. If were in the heat then yes id move much faster

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Anonymous #10 12w

Fair, if it was cold enough out that the ground counts as a deep freeze it would be a lot easier to procrastinate, I was just picturing a normal spring/fall climate that allows for a reasonable speed of decomposition. And it really doesn’t take a lot of decomposition to render something inadvisable to eat, so even a day at temperatures above 40 would start to get iffy

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Anonymous #6 12w

Usually if decomp is happening that means other life is also happening. As a heterotroph, that means i have other food choices haha. Where theres decomp theres at least bacteria (dangerous infectious bacteria typically cant survive long in a dead host so waiting would actually be best there), and bacteria usually means bugs, which usually means larger predators

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Anonymous #6 12w

If you want to get gross then anything from the abdomen would likely be unusable past a few days even in freezing conditions due to bodily gases but limbs would be likely be fine

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Anonymous #6 12w

For the record i dont like imagining this and would never ever do this unless there was literally no other option

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Anonymous #10 12w

Fair enough. I guess I don’t really register it any more because I’ve got a running joke with my friend (that I fully intend to honor if the time comes) that if I ever get a limb amputated I’m giving it to her to barbecue. She’s already got the sauce picked out lmao. I’ve never butchered something before though, so I’m not sure what would survive the stomach contents getting into the rest of the body. I know when people field dress deer they remove the guts for that reason. I digress though

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