I don't watch either show, but I know the basic synopses of both so I heard it and went, "Huh, the show must've took a HUGE narrative turn in recent seasons."
LOL I legit was like wait what?! When did they have a cannibalism episode in between Jack hugging his kids and Rebecca being a mom and the kids being grown ups wth xD
my favorite donner party fun fact is that one of the lead guys wanted his bff to come on the trip with them and bff was like YES IM IN but bff's wife was like NO THANK YOU so bff, being a wife guy, didn't go, and rode around like a sad boi on his horse all day moping when the party headed west without him. also bff was abraham lincoln
I'd take that with a bit of a grain of salt. It seems to be based on the work of one single author (Michael Wallis) who noted that Lincoln was in the right place at the right time and was friends with the right people (most notably James Reed) - so its absolutely plausible. But.. it also would have been right in the middle of Lincoln's (ultimately successful) campaign for a seat in Congress. That doesn't necessarily mean he wouldn't have dropped his run anyway but it certainly makes it more questionable, and I can't find anything to indicate Lincoln's personal intent (as opposed to his wife's desire), leaving the idea to rest solely on the coincidences noted above. Wallis asserts that Lincoln always wanted to go to California but its not clear whether he wanted to go so badly that he'd leave behind a wife, a kid and a seat in Congress on a whim. So.. possible is the most we can say about it. But it also doesn't matter since he obviously didn't go, so no harm believing whichever story tickles you better.
i’m a part of the vulture culture community and tbh collecting human remains is a big thing there and for some reason many people don’t care about the ethics behind it. just like with bodies donated to science coming from mostly poor the exact same can usually be said for the remains being bought and sold in the oddities community. it would be super interesting if you could talk at some point about the laws in buying and selling human remains to the general public in the states because as far as i know it’s only illegal in a couple states. edit* i’d like to add im from canada and would love if you could talk about it at all here as well because i’ve seen human skulls for sale in my local reptile store.
@@sophiagrace6361 it’s messed right up. i absolutely love the vulture culture community. but the side that just does that with zero care is extremely questionable.
Back in my young days I worked as a scrub tech. I'll never forget my first case. The doctor opens up this guy's shoulder peels back the skin and all the subcutaneous fat bright cheesy yellow. Between college and working it's been a full 24 hours a day and I hadn't eaten and my stomach growled so loud The doctor could hear it. She asked what you thinking I said does that not look like Little Caesars cheese pizza. The doctor laughed and said you're going to fit right in. The hospital was also at podiatry teaching hospital so I was in charge of thawing out 50 cadaver feet. I had to take them out back and keep animals away as they thawed out. All of our cadaver parts were always pickled so they will not rot.
I love how Idaho is so reasonable regarding cannibalism by means of extreme survival but other states cannot fathom aborting a pregnancy that was a result of a crime
At a particular site, a woman published several stories about "Vore" (she actually wanted to be cooked and eaten). The stories suddenly stopped, which made me wonder if she got her wish granted, or if she got psychological streatment (she had mentioned in a story that her family feared for her and threatened an intervention so she could get professional help).
There was a Japanese man who had his member surgically removed and then ended up cooking it and serving it at a high end dinner party. Guests paid way too much money to eat a pair of human genitals. I'm not sure what the results of the criminal investigation was but you really gotta question the mental stability of everyone involved in this story. I hope Japan has decent enough mental healthcare...
@@margolane8529 So, they knew this was the menu item prior to showing up to the dinner party? I get the feeling that the internet helped cannibals find others to form a community. I can't imagine it was something someone could really explore prior to the internet.
That whole placenta thing was (maybe still is?) so popular the hospital I had my baby in (in the 2010s) had several statements saying you cannot have your placenta after giving birth. 😬
When hospitals keep it, they send it off to pathology for tests and such, and then it's usually incinerated. I was curious when I had my daughter in a military hospital.
That’s sick to me because it would be a part of my body that I made, so I’m entitled to it. Like why do you care what I’m going to do with it? It’s literally a part of my own body I can do what I want with it even if you think it’s weird. (Even tho I wouldn’t eat it personally. I’m entitled to the option. 😇)
I'm so uneducated on this. I thought this was still a wise thing to do for health after giving birth. Just as long as it's in the pill form. I heard it a long time ago, and just never really questioned it. 😐
@@LeejaMiller I’m surprised you didn’t mention Armie Hammer, who only a couple of years ago basically lost his Hollywood career because of his fantasies.
Early into ConLaw, we were introduced to Regina v Dudley Stephens etc al (1884? Going by memory.) For anyone that doesn't know, Regina refers to the queen which makes sense since this was the first British case of cannibalism on the high seas tried in a British Court. Three men found themselves just lost at sea on a highly questionable raft after their skip went down. One of the men/boy, kept drinking sea water and was steadily becoming sicker and sicker, and so, they decided he wasn't going to make it anyway... You see where this is going, right? The sentence was harsh, but amusingly enough, they basically went on their merry way after the sentencing and highly publicized case. We were told to write a detailed opinion. The following day opened with my professor, largely considered the loudest and most profane man on campus, looking very solemn before announcing that this was the first time in nearly 30 years of teaching law that a student turned in an opinion arguing pro cannibalism. Yep, that was me. This was not nearly the oddest thing I would be known for in college.
I would assume that if someone consumed part of their own body, no one would have standing to bring a case against them because there wouldn’t be a victim.
Cannibalism aside (did I really just type that?), I wouldn’t purchase any kind of meat for consumption after finding out about the frozen torso being hosed off in the parking lot. Like…how desperate are you to eat contaminated meat? Morals be damned, that is a health hazard.
I know why it’s not but I’d love to see your take. I def think it shouldn’t be illegal because of the rare cases where someone freezes to death and their friend has to eat them to survive (or similar things)
This popped up in my feed just now. I read the title and thought, "Okay, I'll bite". Although the pun was unintentional, I don't think I've ever been more proud of myself.
While this accounts for a very tiny amount, but cadaver/search dog trainers use remains from bodies donated. Just want to be sure those folks get a shout out for doing good things by using donated body parts.
Reminder to all that English is absurdly redundant. We just call them the Sierra Nevadas locally because Sierra means mountain in German. Also they named the pass between California and Nevada in Tahoe-Truckee "Donner pass" and I just hate being reminded of this shit every time there is snow up there 😫
It’s not illegal because of survival situations. Murder is illegal, but there such a thing as “the custom of the sea” which was generally not prosecuted because it’s an extreme situation
A. Love those nails! B. I sooo want that ‘Yikes’ button. And C. I’m really interested to see/hear what you think about science in the courtroom. How has it fared in the past? What is happening with it in modern times? Why are we questioning years of good science regulation by the FDA, for instance, in a Texas court?…. Thoughts? As always, thanks for another great presentation.
Honestly, have to appreciate the 4 congresspeople (Chris Murphy, Tom Tillis, Bobby Rush, and Gus Bilirakis) who actually proposed bills to improve the situation with human remains, even if the rest of congress was too busy insider trading to actually do anything
2:01 not cannibalism in this is us…. She meant the last of us. This is us is a wholesome family drama. The opposite of cannibalism. But that last of us shit was crazy
Could what Richard Chase did count as attempted medicinal cannibalism? He reportedly ate people bc of his impotence, trying to fix himself after he felt regular science failed him. Also, can't believe you didn't incluuude him. He's the Vampire of Sacramento
Slight correction on Jamestown, Jamestown wasn't the first english settlement, it was just the first one to stick around. Before Jamestown there was Roanoke which mysteriously disappeared between the time one of their leaders went to get help and the time the english actually ended up sending help.
What I have always found funny is that the Donner Pass, the name, in french can have a few meanings but 'donner' means 'to give and 'pass' can mean 'a ticket or to handoff'. So everytime I hear it I always think of "give a hand' or 'hand-off, give it' lmao 🤢💀
On the Pass Pass, some hand-offs headed off their intended Pass to make a pass at the other hand-offs, who had to pass themselves off as hand-offs in a Survival situation where they had to pass around their fellow hand-offs along the newly minted Pass. Hand-off Pass, home of the Hand-offs who handed off their Pass in the Past. 😁
nah but why did my 8th grace history teacher at my CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN IOWA have us watching a multi episode documentary/re-enactment mini series about the donner party
If you want to watch another cannibalism themed....thing... I recommenced the movie : "The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover". It's a Peter Greenaway film featuring young Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon (AKA Albus Dumbeldor). Super artistic, not really gore-y or anything. But is definitely a mood.
Yes!! I guess I don’t remember it being gorey per se- but do remember it being intensely violent. The costuming was done completely by Jean Paul- Gaultier and is seriously iconic! Also another mood-movie on theme is Titus.
@@angelastermer8501 It's violent but more in a psychological way. You don't see that much on-screen in your face violence. It's an intense film though, no doubt. I love seeing Micheal Gambon in such a diametrically opposed role to his portrayal of Dumbeldor.
HANGMAN’S GREASE. Fat taken from the corpses of hanged men. It was believed to work as a salve when applied to limbs suffering from lameness or restricted blood flow, arthritic joints, and it even aided in the mending of broken bones.
Thank you so much for putting all this information together leeja, my grandpa is dead a** convinced he's going to donate his body "to science" So they'll cremate him for free, and I tried to tell him that, that's most likely not how it's going to work, and that's even if the companies that do offer that, accept your body after death. I will be showing him this information. Thank you again!
Love this one too, creepy reality. Maybe you could do something on the cases of drunken judges or recently rising popularity of Sonja Farak and Annie Dookan?
If cannibalism is a crime in idaho, does that mean communion is illegal? I know its just wine and a wafer but they believe it actually turns in to Jesus's blood and flesh. It should count as illegal js.
Just a guess, but I am willing to bet that the lack of anti-cannibalism laws stems in part from Christianity being the dominant religon of most American lawmakers. Any anti-cannibalism legislation would butt pretty quickly up against the practice of Communion, as many believers take the whole transubstantiation notion literally. While religious exemption carve-outs are concievable, that leads to a scenario of legislators having to defend ritual symbolic cannabilism that they believe becomes literal as being a desirable form of human consumption, ethically superior to any other. Which would be a PR nightmare for any politician who attempted it, I imagine
Leeja, thank you for all you great efforts on educating us, the masses. I appreciate you. On this subject, I have recently become curious as to why Catholics, of which I am a former, celebrate the eating of the body & blood of Jesus. I would sure like your opinion on this. I am really curious as to Jesus' intention when he celebrated this at his last supper.
Really interesting video! But I disagree with you a bit at the end: lawmakers *do* seem to care what happens to poor people's bodies, but only if they're transitioning or trying to get an abortion. Again though, great video, super informative!
In Germany, the law was changed in the early 2000nds ... or annotated to be more clear. There was a person that 100% consensually agreed to being eaten. BUT. There is a difference for "killing out of the desire of the victim" (for instance euthanasia) or just "consent" instead of "desire", which makes this a different crime. I think back then they got the murderer for, well, murder. At first he was booked an equivalent to manslaughter, but it was upgraded to murder, because while he did murder for food... the whole murder had a sexual component, which is murder, not manslaughter. Also he murdered to facilitate another crime: Disturbance of the "Totenruhe" (The dead's peace). Messing with corpses is not a good idea here. I could not figure out, if cannibalism is illegal now or not. There is something new that makes it illegal to 'downgrade' a human life into that of a farm animal. And lots of stuff about disturbing the dead or doing indecent things with body parts. So like Albert Fish, he was done for a murder to facilitate sexual gratification, even though his proclaimed main objective was eating a consenting an adult. There was some fun press when in prison he joined a in-prison discussion group that was branded as being close to our environmental party. The party had to give a press statement that no, the cannibal isn't a member of their party now.
Watched this to see if my story 'Cannibal Confidential' from Terror Tract Publishing had any influence. (It includes a law firm specializing in defending cannibals, and backing their stance up with scripture. Try going down that road sometime! ;) )But seriously, look at how this country treats the living, did you expect them to treat their dead any differently?
As far as I know, this is not practiced in the US, but the novel “Strangers in a Strange Land,” by Robert Heinlein, mentions that the fictional Martians who raised Valentine Michael Smith practiced funerary cannibalism, eating their deceased loved ones to absorb their spiritual virtues (and because Mars had lost almost all of its water). Spoiler alert, if you still haven’t read the book! When Mike is stoned to death in the last chapter by an angry mob for his “heresies,” his disciples prepare a soup from his body and eat it together before going into hiding. Some cultures have likewise practiced funerary cannibalism, and one major religion symbolically eats the body of its founder.
When you are starving your body shuts down and you don't even feel that much pain, you are just super tired and sleepy all the time. As someone who has been there before, there are far worse ways to go and also I cannot imagine having the energy to do something like eat another human raw, damn.
Okay but in terms of the Last of Us cannibalism, they really didnt need to do that. Ellie found a whole buck and they were already resorting to eating people without even hunting first. How can a 14 year old girl be saner than that whole congregation
Also, it really bothered me that they were just giving people platefuls of chopped up meat. No wonder they're running out of food. They need to put the meat in a stew and ration their resources better. Cooking meat in a stew is better than dry cooking because 1. You can use a smaller amount to feed more people 2. More efficient use of cooking fuel 3. Consuming the broth along with the meat is more satiating, filling you up so you don't feel as hungry 4. Especially in a famine situation, stewing makes it easier to digest as opposed to dry cooking. And any babies/elderly/sick people who might not be able to eat the meat will still be able to drink the nutritious broth.
Ha you think that bill will passed and be enforced. Look into the issues with NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). The law to wanted to set up a system to repatriation of Native American remains in any federal funded institution. The supposed to have a inventory done by 1996. Yeah it's still going on.
While in Borneo 30+ years ago a fight broke out between the Madura tribe and the Dayak (Something about not paying a toll on a local bus) this led to the wholesale killing of Maduran’s Of which the Dayaks said our ancestors “use to eat those that insulted us” and that is what they did. The hung up human body parts on a cart and some ate some of the meat. I don’t know how much he charged for the meat, did not ask. Others played ball with the heads. They Dayak generally are great people don’t piss them off. Fun fact; the word “AMOK” is an Indonesian word which means to go crazy for a short period of time. After a few weeks things went back to normal. FYI sailors at the time of Mobey Dick called human flesh “Long Pork” apparently people taste like pork. From what I have been told😉 thanks for dredging up a memory I have spent decades trying to forget.🤷🏻♂️
I wonder why I was told years ago that I wouldn't be legally allowed to keep my leg when the docs were planning to cut it off due to a severed femoral artery and the limb being blue (from cold & blood loss, not necrosis as they were able to save it). I really wanted to make a prosthetic out of the bones. Aah, the thoughts that go through your head while in shock😁
I was hoping you might make a video on the bans on queer content in florida and various bans on drag across the nation? How is it not unconstitutional? Also, along those veins, since drag is art, wouldn't the miller test defend against the claims of obscenity? Thanks!
Leeja! It’s not relevant to this video but I’m catching up on The Office and if you need a subject for a new reaction video, might I suggest the episode titled “The Deposition”?
Okay next dinner party question that will make everyone a little uncomfortable in a fun way… Ethics completely aside, you’re offered to try perfectly cooked human, no one will ever know except you, do you try it?
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Love the shout out to Caitlin Doughty. Both of you guys are real treasures.
Hungry Root being the sponsor of this video is absolutely unhinged 😭
"There's a ton of recipes for all diets".. Don't forget to choose a protein
I don't know if I should laugh but I am
I love it
Love a brand with a sense of humour
Shoukd have had a VPN sponser and she could have gone to those cannibal forums. As a treat
Y'all I meant to say THE LAST OF US (not This Is Us 🙄) Sometimes I talk faster than my brain can keep up with.
Yes, but the idea that an episode of This is Us would be about cannibalism is quite funny given the nature of that show.
I don't watch either show, but I know the basic synopses of both so I heard it and went, "Huh, the show must've took a HUGE narrative turn in recent seasons."
Lmaooo my brother made the same mistake
You changed the meaning of the Crockpot for that show. 😂
My immediate thought was "Not Mandy Moore!"
Loved the Ask a Mortician mention. The cannibalism trilogy is awesome
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The This is Us/Last of Us mix-up got my heart pounding!
Not just "they did what on This is Us?" but also "Oh wow, This is Us is back????"
i was thinking like… did I miss an episode?
Love the idea of This Is Us having a cannibalism episode. Like BIG THREE nom nom nom
LOL I legit was like wait what?! When did they have a cannibalism episode in between Jack hugging his kids and Rebecca being a mom and the kids being grown ups wth xD
I did a double take😂
Yeah she said this is us but I think she meant the last of us :p
And finally finishing this is us with my sister, and I loled so hard. Can't wait to see which one of the big 3 gets eaten first!! 😂
I literally Googled because I was like "ain't no way" and literally the results were like "did you mean THE LAST OF US" 😂
9:10 Yes to Leejah saying she doesn’t need that type of energy so she didn’t watch it! More people should consider this! Boundaries in content
my favorite donner party fun fact is that one of the lead guys wanted his bff to come on the trip with them and bff was like YES IM IN but bff's wife was like NO THANK YOU so bff, being a wife guy, didn't go, and rode around like a sad boi on his horse all day moping when the party headed west without him. also bff was abraham lincoln
I'd take that with a bit of a grain of salt. It seems to be based on the work of one single author (Michael Wallis) who noted that Lincoln was in the right place at the right time and was friends with the right people (most notably James Reed) - so its absolutely plausible.
But.. it also would have been right in the middle of Lincoln's (ultimately successful) campaign for a seat in Congress. That doesn't necessarily mean he wouldn't have dropped his run anyway but it certainly makes it more questionable, and I can't find anything to indicate Lincoln's personal intent (as opposed to his wife's desire), leaving the idea to rest solely on the coincidences noted above. Wallis asserts that Lincoln always wanted to go to California but its not clear whether he wanted to go so badly that he'd leave behind a wife, a kid and a seat in Congress on a whim.
So.. possible is the most we can say about it. But it also doesn't matter since he obviously didn't go, so no harm believing whichever story tickles you better.
Of course he didn't go, he was too busy fighting vampires.
i’m a part of the vulture culture community and tbh collecting human remains is a big thing there and for some reason many people don’t care about the ethics behind it. just like with bodies donated to science coming from mostly poor the exact same can usually be said for the remains being bought and sold in the oddities community. it would be super interesting if you could talk at some point about the laws in buying and selling human remains to the general public in the states because as far as i know it’s only illegal in a couple states. edit* i’d like to add im from canada and would love if you could talk about it at all here as well because i’ve seen human skulls for sale in my local reptile store.
wait what the f
@@sophiagrace6361 it’s messed right up. i absolutely love the vulture culture community. but the side that just does that with zero care is extremely questionable.
ooff, wasn't expecting tumblr's bone-stealing witch to have friends.
High intensity furries or chill af grave robbers?
That seems...not cool. The only people I want selling my skeleton are my family! Maybe in a way I'll finally be able to afford a brand new car 🤔
Back in my young days I worked as a scrub tech. I'll never forget my first case. The doctor opens up this guy's shoulder peels back the skin and all the subcutaneous fat bright cheesy yellow. Between college and working it's been a full 24 hours a day and I hadn't eaten and my stomach growled so loud The doctor could hear it. She asked what you thinking I said does that not look like Little Caesars cheese pizza. The doctor laughed and said you're going to fit right in. The hospital was also at podiatry teaching hospital so I was in charge of thawing out 50 cadaver feet. I had to take them out back and keep animals away as they thawed out. All of our cadaver parts were always pickled so they will not rot.
if butt eating is a crime, take me away officer 🚔
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'take me away officer, I;ve been naughty'
I love how Idaho is so reasonable regarding cannibalism by means of extreme survival but other states cannot fathom aborting a pregnancy that was a result of a crime
Idaho ain’t so great regarding abortion either 💀
"Fun" fact about Jamestown, there's a museum with human remains that show signs of the cannibalism. Bones with saw marks and such. Whee.
At a particular site, a woman published several stories about "Vore" (she actually wanted to be cooked and eaten). The stories suddenly stopped, which made me wonder if she got her wish granted, or if she got psychological streatment (she had mentioned in a story that her family feared for her and threatened an intervention so she could get professional help).
There was a Japanese man who had his member surgically removed and then ended up cooking it and serving it at a high end dinner party. Guests paid way too much money to eat a pair of human genitals. I'm not sure what the results of the criminal investigation was but you really gotta question the mental stability of everyone involved in this story. I hope Japan has decent enough mental healthcare...
@@margolane8529 So, they knew this was the menu item prior to showing up to the dinner party? I get the feeling that the internet helped cannibals find others to form a community. I can't imagine it was something someone could really explore prior to the internet.
I believe it's called Dolcet. Vore is the fetish of getting swallowed whole.
But maybe it's all part of cannibalism anyways
vore is the fetish of being swallowed whole so not really accurate
@@margolane8529 japan doesnt
That whole placenta thing was (maybe still is?) so popular the hospital I had my baby in (in the 2010s) had several statements saying you cannot have your placenta after giving birth. 😬
I’m a doula and they actually let you have it now for encapsulation is you’re not gbs positive!
When hospitals keep it, they send it off to pathology for tests and such, and then it's usually incinerated. I was curious when I had my daughter in a military hospital.
my mom kept both mine and my sisters placenta, buried them and planted trees above them
That’s sick to me because it would be a part of my body that I made, so I’m entitled to it. Like why do you care what I’m going to do with it? It’s literally a part of my own body I can do what I want with it even if you think it’s weird. (Even tho I wouldn’t eat it personally. I’m entitled to the option. 😇)
I'm so uneducated on this. I thought this was still a wise thing to do for health after giving birth. Just as long as it's in the pill form. I heard it a long time ago, and just never really questioned it. 😐
"Last weeks episode of This is Us - cannibals".
Man how I wish that were true.
Lollllll my bad
@@LeejaMiller That show jumped the shark in later seasons, I almost had to Google that to see if it was true.
@@LeejaMiller I’m surprised you didn’t mention Armie Hammer, who only a couple of years ago basically lost his Hollywood career because of his fantasies.
Early into ConLaw, we were introduced to Regina v Dudley Stephens etc al (1884? Going by memory.) For anyone that doesn't know, Regina refers to the queen which makes sense since this was the first British case of cannibalism on the high seas tried in a British Court. Three men found themselves just lost at sea on a highly questionable raft after their skip went down. One of the men/boy, kept drinking sea water and was steadily becoming sicker and sicker, and so, they decided he wasn't going to make it anyway... You see where this is going, right? The sentence was harsh, but amusingly enough, they basically went on their merry way after the sentencing and highly publicized case. We were told to write a detailed opinion. The following day opened with my professor, largely considered the loudest and most profane man on campus, looking very solemn before announcing that this was the first time in nearly 30 years of teaching law that a student turned in an opinion arguing pro cannibalism. Yep, that was me. This was not nearly the oddest thing I would be known for in college.
If cannibalism is illegal in Idaho, does that mean that the whole eating placenta would fall under than law?
I would assume that if someone consumed part of their own body, no one would have standing to bring a case against them because there wouldn’t be a victim.
@@jacobbullock2070 Would make nail-biting a very precarious business 😂
@@jacobbullock2070 If they can criminalize suicide, I imagine they could prosecute you for eating part of yourself.
Yes, is self-cannibalism taboo? Does eating one’s own placenta put this into a different realm? Philosophically speaking.
@@jacobbullock2070 Hm I don't know about that.. is the placenta the property of the mother or the child?
Cannibalism aside (did I really just type that?), I wouldn’t purchase any kind of meat for consumption after finding out about the frozen torso being hosed off in the parking lot. Like…how desperate are you to eat contaminated meat? Morals be damned, that is a health hazard.
I know why it’s not but I’d love to see your take. I def think it shouldn’t be illegal because of the rare cases where someone freezes to death and their friend has to eat them to survive (or similar things)
I believe the Andes plane crash is the most famous survival cannibalism story worldwide.
it's probably the moist exploited story
This popped up in my feed just now.
I read the title and thought, "Okay, I'll bite".
Although the pun was unintentional, I don't think I've ever been more proud of myself.
LOVE Ask a Mortician! Such interesting videos and Kaitlyn is delightful
While this accounts for a very tiny amount, but cadaver/search dog trainers use remains from bodies donated. Just want to be sure those folks get a shout out for doing good things by using donated body parts.
And the FBI's "Body Farm" where they study decomposition of the human body.
Reminder to all that English is absurdly redundant. We just call them the Sierra Nevadas locally because Sierra means mountain in German. Also they named the pass between California and Nevada in Tahoe-Truckee "Donner pass" and I just hate being reminded of this shit every time there is snow up there 😫
i do not know why i thought it would be a good idea to watch this before bed
I'm a true crime fan, and even I'm being utterly repulsed.
I was reading “tender is the flesh” by Augustina Baxtereica and was wandering if it could really be that easy but it seems like YEAH it is.
Investigate anthropophagy in the americas, it is fascinating how our people used to eat their enemies both literal and figuratively
It’s not illegal because of survival situations. Murder is illegal, but there such a thing as “the custom of the sea” which was generally not prosecuted because it’s an extreme situation
A. Love those nails! B. I sooo want that ‘Yikes’ button. And C. I’m really interested to see/hear what you think about science in the courtroom. How has it fared in the past? What is happening with it in modern times? Why are we questioning years of good science regulation by the FDA, for instance, in a Texas court?….
Thoughts?
As always, thanks for another great presentation.
Honestly, have to appreciate the 4 congresspeople (Chris Murphy, Tom Tillis, Bobby Rush, and Gus Bilirakis) who actually proposed bills to improve the situation with human remains, even if the rest of congress was too busy insider trading to actually do anything
2:01 not cannibalism in this is us…. She meant the last of us. This is us is a wholesome family drama. The opposite of cannibalism. But that last of us shit was crazy
This is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever heard. I work in science with human tissues and now I’m like, am I sure where those came from? 🤯
Could what Richard Chase did count as attempted medicinal cannibalism? He reportedly ate people bc of his impotence, trying to fix himself after he felt regular science failed him. Also, can't believe you didn't incluuude him. He's the Vampire of Sacramento
Slight correction on Jamestown, Jamestown wasn't the first english settlement, it was just the first one to stick around. Before Jamestown there was Roanoke which mysteriously disappeared between the time one of their leaders went to get help and the time the english actually ended up sending help.
People used to also consume the bones of the dead, mummies, and burnt hearts as either medicine, or a cure for vampirism, which was really TB.
"Remember: don't eat your roommate, eat Hungry Root instead!" 😂
I cackled.
Sometimes I forget you have less than 100k subs. You deserve so more! Glad that I found this channel ❤
She is too smart for the average American.
Since she doesn’t show her a$$ to get followers she has the right amount of subscribers ❤
What I have always found funny is that the Donner Pass, the name, in french can have a few meanings but 'donner' means 'to give and 'pass' can mean 'a ticket or to handoff'. So everytime I hear it I always think of "give a hand' or 'hand-off, give it' lmao 🤢💀
On the Pass Pass, some hand-offs headed off their intended Pass to make a pass at the other hand-offs, who had to pass themselves off as hand-offs in a Survival situation where they had to pass around their fellow hand-offs along the newly minted Pass.
Hand-off Pass, home of the Hand-offs who handed off their Pass in the Past. 😁
nah but why did my 8th grace history teacher at my CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN IOWA have us watching a multi episode documentary/re-enactment mini series about the donner party
I just recently finished the cannibalism trilogy...love this spin-off. Maybe you two should collaborate?
If you want to watch another cannibalism themed....thing... I recommenced the movie : "The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover". It's a Peter Greenaway film featuring young Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon (AKA Albus Dumbeldor). Super artistic, not really gore-y or anything. But is definitely a mood.
Yes!! I guess I don’t remember it being gorey per se- but do remember it being intensely violent. The costuming was done completely by Jean Paul- Gaultier and is seriously iconic!
Also another mood-movie on theme is Titus.
@@angelastermer8501 It's violent but more in a psychological way. You don't see that much on-screen in your face violence. It's an intense film though, no doubt. I love seeing Micheal Gambon in such a diametrically opposed role to his portrayal of Dumbeldor.
HANGMAN’S GREASE. Fat taken from the corpses of hanged men. It was believed to work as a salve when applied to limbs suffering from lameness or restricted blood flow, arthritic joints, and it even aided in the mending of broken bones.
Yes! Ask a Mortician! In this house we love Caitlin ⭐
I mean, if I die in a plane crash, feel free to eat me.
oh no this is one of my biggest fears and I've been hearing more and more about it recently and that's just not that vibe ok -- but yet I watch this
nah cause we went from a slew of zombie movies and it feels like they said well let's expedite it and just make media about eating people
I love Caitlin 🖤🖤
Y’all have no idea how many conversations I’ve had about cannibalism with people 😂 I just love freaking them out as much as it did me when I found out
Interesting choice of sponsor for this particular topic... :)
One has to wonder...
I've been binging all day after discovering you. Love your videos!
Thank you so much for putting all this information together leeja, my grandpa is dead a** convinced he's going to donate his body "to science" So they'll cremate him for free, and I tried to tell him that, that's most likely not how it's going to work, and that's even if the companies that do offer that, accept your body after death. I will be showing him this information. Thank you again!
If the people have no bread, then let them eat other people -Marie Antoinette, probably.
Love this one too, creepy reality. Maybe you could do something on the cases of drunken judges or recently rising popularity of Sonja Farak and Annie Dookan?
Re: find everlasting youth... you mean we've been saddled with Peter Freaking Thiel for centuries? sigh.
I studied the story of Albert Fish. Oh my, if you have the stomach for it I recommend reading up on him.
If cannibalism is a crime in idaho, does that mean communion is illegal? I know its just wine and a wafer but they believe it actually turns in to Jesus's blood and flesh. It should count as illegal js.
Did you pick the sponsor just for this subject? That's the kind of unhinged content I'm here for!
Thank you for making this, your videos are always interesting and informative. Today’s topic is a favorite of mine 😅
really like that cut, colour and glasses combo on you. also, cannibalism bad!...?
no wonder some of them have this weird relationship with religion and god, generational guilt.
Please don’t stop making out of the ordinary videos like this one. I feel like you only tackle serious videos now
Also reaction videos, love those 😊
Just a guess, but I am willing to bet that the lack of anti-cannibalism laws stems in part from Christianity being the dominant religon of most American lawmakers. Any anti-cannibalism legislation would butt pretty quickly up against the practice of Communion, as many believers take the whole transubstantiation notion literally. While religious exemption carve-outs are concievable, that leads to a scenario of legislators having to defend ritual symbolic cannabilism that they believe becomes literal as being a desirable form of human consumption, ethically superior to any other. Which would be a PR nightmare for any politician who attempted it, I imagine
lmao literally had to ask my wife what was the deal with the this is us cannibal plot line
The only people I want to eat are the rich
Please please please do a video of the courtroom scene from RuPauls Drag Race All Stars season 7. It’s so good!!! And it’ll be even better with you!!
While I find it disgusting, if you don't kill someone in order to eat them, I see no problem.
It's so disappointing that this video didn't do amazing, it was genuinely such a fun watch... And I looked like you had fun with this one
I’m having major flashbacks to the Wine & Crime episode about long pig
Another interesting law in Idaho is the ritual abuse act where children can not be present in rituals and rites involving sacrifices
Leeja, thank you for all you great efforts on educating us, the masses. I appreciate you.
On this subject, I have recently become curious as to why Catholics, of which I am a former, celebrate the eating of the body & blood of Jesus. I would sure like your opinion on this. I am really curious as to Jesus' intention when he celebrated this at his last supper.
Really interesting video! But I disagree with you a bit at the end: lawmakers *do* seem to care what happens to poor people's bodies, but only if they're transitioning or trying to get an abortion. Again though, great video, super informative!
Which proves the point, that threat of punishment is not keeping ordinary people from doing terrible things.
You just missed the news story about the guy who killed his neighbor then feed her heart to his family because he wanted to cleanse them
In Germany, the law was changed in the early 2000nds ... or annotated to be more clear. There was a person that 100% consensually agreed to being eaten. BUT. There is a difference for "killing out of the desire of the victim" (for instance euthanasia) or just "consent" instead of "desire", which makes this a different crime. I think back then they got the murderer for, well, murder. At first he was booked an equivalent to manslaughter, but it was upgraded to murder, because while he did murder for food... the whole murder had a sexual component, which is murder, not manslaughter. Also he murdered to facilitate another crime: Disturbance of the "Totenruhe" (The dead's peace). Messing with corpses is not a good idea here. I could not figure out, if cannibalism is illegal now or not. There is something new that makes it illegal to 'downgrade' a human life into that of a farm animal. And lots of stuff about disturbing the dead or doing indecent things with body parts.
So like Albert Fish, he was done for a murder to facilitate sexual gratification, even though his proclaimed main objective was eating a consenting an adult.
There was some fun press when in prison he joined a in-prison discussion group that was branded as being close to our environmental party. The party had to give a press statement that no, the cannibal isn't a member of their party now.
Watched this to see if my story 'Cannibal Confidential' from Terror Tract Publishing had any influence. (It includes a law firm specializing in defending cannibals, and backing their stance up with scripture. Try going down that road sometime! ;) )But seriously, look at how this country treats the living, did you expect them to treat their dead any differently?
Wow! This is Us has CANNIBALS?!?! I might have to check that show out now, sounds like it took a *drastic* turn
(Jk 😆)
As far as I know, this is not practiced in the US, but the novel “Strangers in a Strange Land,” by Robert Heinlein, mentions that the fictional Martians who raised Valentine Michael Smith practiced funerary cannibalism, eating their deceased loved ones to absorb their spiritual virtues (and because Mars had lost almost all of its water).
Spoiler alert, if you still haven’t read the book!
When Mike is stoned to death in the last chapter by an angry mob for his “heresies,” his disciples prepare a soup from his body and eat it together before going into hiding. Some cultures have likewise practiced funerary cannibalism, and one major religion symbolically eats the body of its founder.
When you are starving your body shuts down and you don't even feel that much pain, you are just super tired and sleepy all the time. As someone who has been there before, there are far worse ways to go and also I cannot imagine having the energy to do something like eat another human raw, damn.
I love that the random pattern of popularity drove you to cover something lol
Okay but in terms of the Last of Us cannibalism, they really didnt need to do that. Ellie found a whole buck and they were already resorting to eating people without even hunting first. How can a 14 year old girl be saner than that whole congregation
Also, it really bothered me that they were just giving people platefuls of chopped up meat. No wonder they're running out of food. They need to put the meat in a stew and ration their resources better. Cooking meat in a stew is better than dry cooking because
1. You can use a smaller amount to feed more people
2. More efficient use of cooking fuel
3. Consuming the broth along with the meat is more satiating, filling you up so you don't feel as hungry
4. Especially in a famine situation, stewing makes it easier to digest as opposed to dry cooking. And any babies/elderly/sick people who might not be able to eat the meat will still be able to drink the nutritious broth.
*I would like to point out that I am not pro cannibalism, I am pro stew.
Thankyou, that is all.
Well, I don't know what I was expecting but I don't feel so good now
Ha you think that bill will passed and be enforced. Look into the issues with NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). The law to wanted to set up a system to repatriation of Native American remains in any federal funded institution. The supposed to have a inventory done by 1996. Yeah it's still going on.
While in Borneo 30+ years ago a fight broke out between the Madura tribe and the Dayak (Something about not paying a toll on a local bus) this led to the wholesale killing of Maduran’s Of which the Dayaks said our ancestors “use to eat those that insulted us” and that is what they did. The hung up human body parts on a cart and some ate some of the meat. I don’t know how much he charged for the meat, did not ask. Others played ball with the heads. They Dayak generally are great people don’t piss them off. Fun fact; the word “AMOK” is an Indonesian word which means to go crazy for a short period of time. After a few weeks things went back to normal. FYI sailors at the time of Mobey Dick called human flesh “Long Pork” apparently people taste like pork. From what I have been told😉 thanks for dredging up a memory I have spent decades trying to forget.🤷🏻♂️
The only thing I can hear is, "my collar, my collar, my collar," to the tune of something stupid I'm singing in my head.
I wonder why I was told years ago that I wouldn't be legally allowed to keep my leg when the docs were planning to cut it off due to a severed femoral artery and the limb being blue (from cold & blood loss, not necrosis as they were able to save it). I really wanted to make a prosthetic out of the bones.
Aah, the thoughts that go through your head while in shock😁
I was hoping you might make a video on the bans on queer content in florida and various bans on drag across the nation? How is it not unconstitutional? Also, along those veins, since drag is art, wouldn't the miller test defend against the claims of obscenity? Thanks!
Caitlin Doughty from Ask A Mortician is amazing
Leeja! It’s not relevant to this video but I’m catching up on The Office and if you need a subject for a new reaction video, might I suggest the episode titled “The Deposition”?
Wow, This Is Us has really taken a turn since I last watched it 😂
What was the pre-made meal service you've discussed in the past? I'm doing hello fresh right now but I don't want to actually cook every day lol
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I did not know that Tina Belcher Wrote a Book about her dream Dairy.
Okay next dinner party question that will make everyone a little uncomfortable in a fun way… Ethics completely aside, you’re offered to try perfectly cooked human, no one will ever know except you, do you try it?
Have you listened to the “your wrong about” podcasts some of those are about cannibalism!!
Boy did I pick the wrong video to watch while I ate my lunch
Answering questions I never thought to ask
I had no idea This Is Us is about cannibalism
I love Ask a Mortician! Caitlin Doughty is one of my favorite RUclips creators. ❤
Kinda missed out on the whole placenta eating movement, and I'm not talking about the ancient Roman cheesecake 🤮
Perhaps you'd prefer some good old fashioned hard tack (clack clack)
The survivors of the Essex could have cooked the dead, they were able to cook a bit using the shells from the tortoises they killed and ate.
So youre saying with the right phone calls, I could legally obtain a skull? Thats mental.