‘With every bite, my memory of him grew stronger,’ he said. Guardian online headline 4 December 2003, ‘Victim of Cannibal Agreed to be Eaten’
The impact had broken up the plane. How arbitrary it was! Why had some people been destroyed while others had escaped with just a black eye? Storyville – Cannibals in the Andes, Roberto Canessa, BBC 2012
We had to do things I don’t think any animal is capable of like eating its own species. ibid. survivor
And we had to debase ourselves as far as any human being is capable of. ibid.
Everything rushes forward because of the deceleration. And then a tomb-like silence. ibid.
There’s the general feeling that we either die or we do this thing. ibid.
Now it is a matter of life and death. Death was lying still and watching everyone gradually fading away. ibid.
From that moment we were taking a leap into the unknown. ibid.
The cold slowly extinguishes you from the inside out. ibid.
Such desperation, anxiety and fear. ibid.
I had a reaction against this God. I just couldn’t understand how He could have killed all of them. ibid.
The group had to be united or we would never win out. ibid.
It’s agonising not knowing how long this suffering will last. ibid.
We would show ourselves to the world in all our nakedness. ibid.
My son said, They lent their muscles so we could walk. ibid.
For Our Friends, Forever Dear. ibid. caption
How arbitrary is was! Why had some people been destroyed while others had escaped with just a black eye? Storyville: Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors, BBC 2022
Until we hit a big air pocket, what fun! ibid.
So the older ones took charge of distribution. ibid.
If by December 24th Christmas Eve they hadn’t appeared, I was going to let myself die. ibid.
Elaine Figgis is thirty-four and lives in York. She has travelled over four thousand miles to Dallas Texas to marry a man she’s never met. Jeremiah Wainwright III is a convicted murderer and notorious cannibal. He is currently on Death Row awaiting execution. The Catherine Tate Show
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. II Kings 6:28&29
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron. Mica 3:2&3
Shower while there were two dead bodies in the bathtub, and he was sane. He drilled holes in the heads of living people to make them his unresisting companions, and he was sane. He ate a bicep which he fried in a skillet, tenderised and sprinkled with sauce, and he was sane. For hours he lay with corpses, hugging them, cherishing them, and he was sane. He kept eleven assorted heads and skulls, and two complete skeletons, for eventual use in a home-made temple, and he was sane. Brian Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
Armin Meiwes seems the perfect neighbour ... Armin’s interest in Cannibalism was awakened at the age of ten ... Robinson Crusoe. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook s3e5: The Cannibal of Rotenburg, 2013
He was free to indulge his fantasies on the internet and pursue his obsession with cannibalism. ibid.
It would all be recorded on video. ibid.
Is it murder or manslaughter when someone volunteers willingly? ibid.
There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. Graham Chapman, Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Planning on getting me some girl meat ... and then properly butcher her and cook her meat. Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop Gilberto Valle, MHAL52 darknet chat, Sky Atlantic 2015
A New York city police officer has been arrested in a failed plot to kidnap dozens of women, cook them and then eat them. ibid. news
He never ate anyone. ibid. wife
A 35-year-old Austrian man, hungry for a snack, hacked off his toes on his left foot, fried them, and ate them between two slices of bread – because he could find nothing else to eat! Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
Another key neurological symptom that zombies display is an extreme level of violence with a hunger for human flesh and brains. Zombies: The Truth, National Geographic 2010
Two cannibals were eating a clown – one said to the other, ‘Does he taste funny to you?’ Tommy Cooper
You managed not to get eaten then? Prince Philip to British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998
‘We opened the back of the sacrifice and pluck out the heart and cut it out piece – piece – and ate them.’ Strange Rituals: Cannibalism, H2 2016
Cannibalism has always been the ultimate transgression. Those people who have eaten human flesh both fascinate and appal us. ibid.
1996 in war-torn Liberia: journalists came face to face with a new generation of combat cannibals. ibid.
9th March 2001: Armin Meiwes, a 39 year old computer engineer who lives in Germany, takes a butcher’s knife. He cuts the penis off Bernd Brandes, a 42 year old software designer, who has arranged to be killed and eaten. Meiwes slices it in half; they both try to eat a piece. He records the whole event on video. The Man Who Ate His Lover, BBC 2004
Over the next year he eats twenty kilogram’s of Brandes’ flesh before he voluntarily confesses. ibid.
His mother’s death threw him completely off balance. ibid.
Imagine the humiliation. A cannibal with false teeth. Rab C Nesbitt s2e4: That’s Entertainment, brief to judge, BBC 1992
Twenty-six years ago this man [Issei Sagawa] murdered and ate a woman in Paris. He has never stood trial. Today he walks the Tokyo streets a free man – a free man with an ongoing appetite for human flesh. The Cannibal that Walked Free, Channel 5 2007
‘When we opened this little fridge it was quite incredible: we found a big quantity of human flesh cut off from the corpse of the poor victim in order to be eaten later. We also found the plate containing the remains of a meal with pieces of cooked human flesh and condiments – mustard.’ ibid. rozzer
In murdering and cannibalising young Dutch student Renée Hartevelt, Issei Sagawa committed a crime so taboo press around the world reacted with horror and disbelief. ibid.
‘I couldn’t reach with my knife so I whipped out the flesh with my fingers and put it in my mouth. After I had sex with her I tried to kiss her …’ ibid. Issei
12 years ago Parisians were stunned by the news of an appalling crime. A young Dutch female student was murdered in the most shocking circumstances. The killer [Sagawa] appeared to show no remorse. Newspaper and television coverage displayed a fascination with the most gruesome details of the crime. Excuse Me for Living: The Curious Case of the Japanese Cannibal, Channel 4 1993
Issei Sagawa committed one of the most notorious individual crimes of the last twenty years. Unlike most of his kind society did not exact its revenge: Sagawa was not locked up until old and grey; he emerged into a world where he and his crime had been long forgotten. Due to an extraordinary legal loophole Sagawa was freed three years after the crime. Since committing his crime Sagawa has written a series of books. ibid.
‘I don’t want to kill; I just want to eat … now directed towards white women exclusively.’ ibid. Sagawa
‘I’m a weak small short ugly man, I know that.’ ibid.
‘What happened to the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus? And more importantly, what happened to their crews? Conspiracies Decoded s1e4, Jess Phoenix, science writer, DiscoveryPlus 2022
It appears that the sailors of Franklin’s expedition were eaten, but by who[m]? ibid.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, 1962