Research

When Fall trimester ended, the very afternoon I got home, I was flipping channels and found a three-hour segment on Cannibalism. Now, most people would probably turn away from this, but I was completely, and totally, intrigued. I sat there lifeless for those three hours, watching as it went into the history of famous cannibals (The urgagray soccer team, the donor party) and how it had others I hadn't heard of too (Some men at the bay of pigs that got stranded, A ship headed for America that got lost for some two months- In this one, they first shot the slave, stating he was "part of their cargo" and next had to choose lots on who would be shot and eaten next. This guy got picked, but seeing as the whole crew liked him, gave him one night. That night they were rescued, but their "intended" target went mad from the sheer thought- and was mad until he died. This show, which runs on the history channel, is what first got me interested in the idea of cannibalism for a topic of further research. (You can find a description of the show here)

Now I don't merely want to do the history of it- I learned that from this show, and it'd be boring to research it again.

I thought for a bit I'd do Self-cannibalism. Or Autocannibalism, given the name you assign to it, but there is very few sources available out there. when looking, I started with Wikipedia as my jumping off point, and found a link to this story about a man who served his own fat to guests for dinner. Ew. I also tired Ebsco host a bit, but there was very little on it- what I did find, they didn't even have the full text, just the title- basically, it was pointless.

This means, I can't do my original idea of self-cannibalism, and instead I am contemplating keeping with cannibalism, and trying to research the physce of what these people go through when they eat/after they've eaten people, or, if that too is fruitless, go with my next topic: Nazi Medical research in the death camps.

I realize these are both gross topics, but they interest me. Mainly because they are disgusting.

I won't just detail what the Nazi's did, but seeing as I spent hours researching a dead topic, I'll have to start over. When I do compose a good topic, I'll post again... May I could do an ethical question about it, like if the research is- while being collected in a horrible fashion- beneficial to the medical world?