A new type of appetite

In the story of The Survivors of the F-227, there was a tragic plane crash that had only 27 people survive. They thought they'd get rescued quickly and spend a night or two. Few days later, only sixteen remained. The only sources of food that lasted them a couple of days were chocolate and wine but that didn't help much at all. The survivors however, realized that they had to find food soon or they'd have no chance of living. The small talk became an open discussion between all the survivors and they came to a conclusion that they had no choice but to eat the dead bodies. It's a disturbing fact to think your choices of food are limited to dead human bodies. But as a group, they socially constructed rules of eating. No one had to eat, no women were allowed to be eaten, and no one had to eat a friend or relative. However, when they were saved four days before Christmas, they were uncomfortable talking about what they'd done. As soon as the public found out about their story, the survivors became celebrities who were considered special people. As a outsider reading and viewing this whole story in my perspective, I wouldn't be able to eat another human being. Even if it was the last thing that could save me from dying, I wouldn't have the courage to consider another human being as food. It's not what they did that was so brave, it was that they pushed through the idea of eating other strangers in order to get back to their own families, reality back at home.