Quote Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon View Post
Here are the explicit circumstances.

If I were visiting a place that placed cultural value on cannibalism and they invited me to try human meat and said human providing the meat had died of more or less natural causes (ie not human sacrifice, battle, torture, etc) then I might probably sample that meat.
I would never do this because what if the person did in fact not die of natural causes and died of some transferable disease or parasite.

Also, just delving into the possibility of this and not trying to be a jerk -to die of normal natural causes, the person would have had to be very old or something, wouldn't they? It would be difficult for me to see a tribe of sorts (I assume that is who we are talking about here) eating a person who had died of a natural cause like cancer or lord knows what else because I would assume they would look at the meat of the person as sort of "plagued" or something like that and would have an aversion to eating it. I could see them more consuming an enemy killed in battle because a popular belief existing in cultures like that who cannibalize believe you are eating the person's soul/strength/whatever when you consume flesh, and it would makes sense to steal that from your enemies more than someone from your own tribe.

just thoughts I am overthinking this cannibal stuff