Would you eat another human to stay alive?

To your last edit - no, I don't think I have ever not eaten for 24 hours straight. How do you expect me to imagine that immense pain and the twisting of my ability to think clearly?

If we're both so "well" that we can both eat each other, and it would eventually have it come to a fight to see who gets to live and who gets eaten... I'm pretty sure I'd be capable of defending myself and if necessary kill someone else if it was either him or me, and I suppose if I had killed him, and eating him is my only chance to survive, I probably would. Survival instinct is a bitch!

I rather die than becoming cannibal.

to stay alive? i don't think so... just for fun? ofc!

You can survive about 2 months without food. Water would be more dire.

lol, I finally opened this topic and this cracked me up: "Edit 2: For all of you saying no,have you actually experienced hunger for more than a few hours? I assure you it is immensely painful and that it twists your ability to think clearly."
I've gone without eating for a week (voluntarily, and for no particular reason). It's not that bad. You just get very weak. And also more aware of your compulsive eating habits and how many damn fast food places there are.

If we really reached that point, both of us will die out of starvation. Critical decision moment is long way in the past.

If I had kids to feed (like during 1942 Leningrad blocade) I'd probably lie to my kids and feed them with what I can find (domestic animals, grass, freshly died humans etc)

Rationally, I prefer 'One Dead, One Alive' over any 'Both Dead' scenarios. Given that the dead person was not murdered.

I'm not sure if I'd be able to eat another person, especially if I knew them, but the will to survive makes a person one ruthless son of a bitch, I guess.

Well... not the whole thing.

Is that a police fishing for possible canibal candidates? Good thing I have quite a good deal of fat stored in my belly, I might be able to last pretty long!

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

As said before, you'd most likely die of many other causes before starving, that aside: As long as possible, no, I can't imagine eating raw meat (be it human or of any other animal). However, should my companion attack me, I would eat him/her, acting in self-defense and all that. Wouldn't really know what to tell the rescue team though...

Yes.

Depends on the circumstances.

The real question is whether you'd tell his family that he made the noble sacrifice and decided to let you eat him so that one of you would survive, or say that he "died" in whatever accident stranded you in that situation in the first place.

Only if he/she just died before me and i have NO other alternatives i would, probably, i would cook the meat of course.

man or women? can we eat 1 limb from 1 person? plants/roots around? lizards ? bugs?

Yes, probably. I'm not really concerned about cannibalism, but rather the technical aspects of the overall situation: if both of us were going to die within a day from hunger, would we still be able to move or even communicate? I haven't experienced starvation so I can't really say.

I would of course prefer it if there was mutual consent. I have no objections to people having even seemingly horrifying things done to them if that's what they wish. I believe everyone should have the unalienable right to their own body. Although I can't say if I could uphold this value in a life or death situation. Likely I'd cave in and commit murder. Or I might just as well give up and let the other person live from my remains. I can't really fathom a scenario where something like this would happen, but it most likely would take a heavy toll on my mental health (which isn't at 100% anyway).

Well. I will honestly say that, if I had no choice but to eat a human in order to live. I probably would. Who knows for sure though since I have never been in that sort of situation. I would assume the need to survive would take over and that is why I say I probably would.

However, if it was just me and someone I really cared about, I know I could not do it. I've been in situations where I put myself in harms way in order to protect someone I care about, so I very much doubt I would do that to someone I care about.

.. and yes I have experienced severe hunger issues in the past. So I do know what it feels like to honestly be starving. However in those cases, eating a human never came into my thoughts. Keep in mind though if I went a day or two longer I probably would have entertained the idea.

Honestly the only concerns I would have about cannibalism is disease. ( Beside of course, eating someone I care about.. really do not think I could do that. Who knows though I could be wrong. ) Besides blood born illnesses ( STDs,ect ) there is also a chance of a disease that has been shown to occur in cannibalistic tribes of old. Keep in mind though those diseases I believe only really pop up after ingesting a lot of human meat, not just a small portion. ( I could be wrong on that as its been a while since I studied that stuff. )

I alred did

That's a rather fucking dark and grim thing to ask people on a forum, you sick, twisted, demented sob. That said, my answers is probably not. But there's no way of knowing something like this for sure. For a person that isn't a total sociopath, the fear of killing another human being usually outweighs the survival instinct. Also, such a situation would imply a struggle, a physical fight where one lives and one dies. Considering both people are almost dead with hunger, probably both would die :-p.

When I'm hungry I phone McDonalds or KFC Delivery. I hope this will help if you're wondering whether to eat someone when you're hungry.

Even if help arrives in a day or two, you'll die from blood loss. So unless there is a safe way of cauterizing the wounds and allowing both people to live, no.

Other than that yes, i've had hunger for around a day; It is painful, but not THAT much, but it doesn't twist my moral decisions enough to decide over someone else's life, since that is what you really seem to be asking, whether or not everyone is out for themseles.

Would we actually have to use "starving" as an excuse?

What kind of a fucked up question is that!? Ofcourse not!