The Ethics of consensual cannibalism : deconstructing the human-animal dichotomy

Abstract

How can anyone consent to being eaten? This was, and still is, a common question and response to the cannibalism case that took place in Germany in 2001. It was a case that took 6 years to resolve because the notion of 'consent' entailed, at the time, legal and moral complications

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