The act of
devouring the
dead.
Although possibly frowned upon in
western society, necrophagy makes
economic sense from a purely objective point of view. When ignoring any supposed
sanctity of the human body, a person's
flesh is just another form of
meat, the
consumption of which is no worse than any other dead
animal.
Necrophagy is a
phenomenon commonly witnessed in
B-grade survival movies invloving an
aeroplane crash in some isolated wilderness. As the survivors get increasingly desperate with
hunger, they must consider all possibilities.
One convincing argument against necrophagy is the existence of
prions. (Thanks to
Gone Jackal).