Well?

GerryRyan · 25-10-2007 3:12pm #1

I was thinking about this for a solid 15mins while in one of my lectures (should be fun when I sit the exams

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Now, assuming it could be done - either through near starvation, sheer insanity ... or just curiosity - what would happen if you tried eating yourself?

Be it with the most effective pain killer ever made or something to dull the pain.

What would the outcome be?

kev_s88 · 25-10-2007 3:15pm

you would die very,very quickly.

too much blood loss to be able to survive.id say you might get away with finishing your arm before the lack of blood would take hold and kill you!!

TerrorFirmer · 25-10-2007 3:15pm

Ever read Stephens Kings 'Survivor Type'?

If not, I think you'll enjoy reading it. It's gross.

projectmayhem · 25-10-2007 3:16pm

i refuse to part-take in this discussion.

where's the atari jaguar option?

robinph · 25-10-2007 3:18pm

kev_s88 wrote: »

you would die very,very quickly.

too much blood loss to be able to survive.id say you might get away with finishing your arm before the lack of blood would take hold and kill you!!

But you'd have just eaten your arm and drank all the blood that leaked out so where is the loss?

GLaDOS · 25-10-2007 3:19pm

There's a Stephen King short story on this very topic

Edit Havok already mentioned it

Orange69 · 25-10-2007 3:19pm

Why dont you try it out and let us know?

GerryRyan · 25-10-2007 3:19pm

ScienceNerd wrote: »

There's a Stephen King short story on this very topic

Sweet ... I'm in the college library as we speak *runs to fiction section*

Wacker · 25-10-2007 3:20pm

robinph wrote: »

But you'd have just eaten your arm and drank all the blood that leaked out so where is the loss?

That blood is now in your stomach, where it only provides you with protein. You need in your bloodstream.

Could be amusing to watch though.

dame · 25-10-2007 3:20pm

robinph wrote: »

But you'd have just eaten your arm and drank all the blood that leaked out so where is the loss?

You'll piss most of it out after a little while.

cance · 25-10-2007 3:21pm

you would pass out and bleed to death.

TerrorFirmer · 25-10-2007 3:21pm

I think it's in Skeleton Crew. Best book of his.

azezil · 25-10-2007 3:22pm

Disappear into FAT AIR perhaps ^_^

GerryRyan · 25-10-2007 3:24pm

Alot of people are saying you'd just pass out - so I'm adding to the scenario.
Let's say you have insulin/morphine or some type of drip connected to an un-eaten limb - and you can't pass out ...

*didn't have the book by the way*

TerrorFirmer · 25-10-2007 3:28pm

The story is about a surgeon who is the only survivor of an accident and left stranded on a small island, with a large supply of heroin and not much else. He breaks his ankle, is left immobile, and with no real prospect of rescue he starts with the broken ankle and works his way around parts of his anatomy he doesn't 'need', while high on drugs. It's creepy, possible one of the greatest things I've ever read.

Dinxminx · 25-10-2007 3:29pm

Wouldn't you die kind of slowly?

GerryRyan · 25-10-2007 3:32pm

HavoK wrote: »

The story is about a surgeon who is the only survivor of an accident and left stranded on a small island, with a large supply of heroin and not much else. He breaks his ankle, is left immobile, and with no real prospect of rescue he starts with the broken ankle and works his way around parts of his anatomy he doesn't 'need', while high on drugs. It's creepy, possible one of the greatest things I've ever read.

That man is a genius - in a morbid, twisted way.

The question is - if you eventually got around to it - how could you eat your own nose or cheek?

And for some reason - you can't use any knives or forks - has be done completely with the mouth.

cson · 25-10-2007 3:38pm

I'd imagine by the time you got around to eating your face, you would in fact have eaten the rest of yourself, heart, liver, kidneys, lungs and all those delicious faculties you actually need to live, so my professional guess is that you would be 'deceased' as it were.

TwoShedsJackson · 25-10-2007 3:41pm

HavoK wrote: »

Ever read Stephens Kings 'Survivor Type'?

If not, I think you'll enjoy reading it. It's gross.

One of his best short stories too.

GerryRyan · 25-10-2007 3:42pm

Where am I going with this?

very insightful answers folks - off to get my bus.

Toodle pip

DeVore · 25-10-2007 3:50pm

The body doesnt digest/metabolise blood well. It can cause all sorts of problems. Humans are basically elongated donuts, shoving stuff through the hole isnt going to make it part of the donut again.

DeV.

Sleepy · 25-10-2007 3:50pm

Simple equation - take out the damage you'd be doing yourself, the human body's disgestive system is not 100% efficient so you'd be peeing/crapping out the majority of the nutrients in what you were eating.

Black Swan · 25-10-2007 3:53pm

Maybe you need help from the Pre-exam Doctor? Let's see, what are the symptoms? Accessing boards rather than studying? Chatting up classmates when you should be reading? Bags under the eyes from lack of sleep? Having delusions about eating yourself? Conducting boards polls without the Atari Jaguar option? If you suffer from one or more of these symptoms, you need the Pre-Exam Doctor!

How can you reach the Pre-Exam Doctor? Well, unfortunately the Doctor is studying for exams to avoid the very symptoms you are experiencing...;)

MooseJam · 25-10-2007 4:02pm

tastes like chicken mmm

nice1franko · 25-10-2007 4:04pm

If I was covered in elephant and castle chicken wing sauce I'd do it.

I'd take care not to start at the wrists though or I probably wouldn't get very far.

26-10-2007 9:00pm

Ever read Stephens Kings 'Survivor Type'?

If not, I think you'll enjoy reading it. It's gross.[/QUOTE]

HavoK wrote: »

The story is about a surgeon who is the only survivor of an accident and left stranded on a small island, with a large supply of heroin and not much else. He breaks his ankle, is left immobile, and with no real prospect of rescue he starts with the broken ankle and works his way around parts of his anatomy he doesn't 'need', while high on drugs. It's creepy, possible one of the greatest things I've ever read.

Yeah, It's quality. The best part is that it's written in the form of a diary and gets less and less coherent as it goes on.

"lady fingers......they taste just like lady fingers"

I believe what the OP is referring to, is Auto-cannibalism. Check out the linkage