Is it legal to eat yourself?

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Self-explanatory. I live in Illinois, by the way.

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  1. Fiending-Nemo Avatar

    autocannibalism is not illegal and apparently cannibalism isn’t illegal either but naturally there are laws that outlaw the purchase of human meat. i truly don’t mean to be a prick but you do know this was an easy search on google right?

  2. Calfan_Verret Avatar

    Not particularly. As far as I’m aware, killing or assaulting someone and eating them is illegal of course, but the act of cannibalism itself is not in the US. There’s a famous Reddit story of a guy who got his foot amputated and managed to keep it through legal paperwork and took it home, cooked and ate it because he was curious.

  3. 666hmuReddit Avatar

    I took a tiny bite out of one of my boobs once when I was in my self injurious phase. It didn’t hurt but left a really ugly scar. It looks like a cigarette burn

  4. Saltylemonsx Avatar

    Automatically thinks of that guy who made tacos out of his leg lmaooo

  5. AcidicSlimeTrail Avatar

    I recently had a double mastectomy, and I asked if I could keep the tissue afterwards. They said I could pick it up after it was dissected in a lab and confirmed that I didn’t have any tumors/cancer. When I picked them up the other day, the lab technician looked me dead in the eyes and explained that the tissue had been put through a variety of chemicals and was NOT safe to eat. I did not plan on eating my tits regardless, but the way she said it made me think this has been a Problem™ in the past… 

    Others have said it is straight up illegal, but they’re ignoring the reason for making it illegal is likely for the same reason suicide is illegal (i.e. so the police can have full jurisdiction to stop someone from harming themselves). If you simply cook up a slab of yourself, then turn yourself in, the repercussions will likely be a mental hospital or something.

  6. rutherfraud1876 Avatar

    Depends on how badly you want to survive

  7. mikobaby Avatar

    Yeah I eat my little hangnails all the time

  8. MillennialMan5000 Avatar

    Not sure I’d taste good

  9. -imagenotfound Avatar

    Yes but it’s gross.

  10. Moist_Fail_9269 Avatar

    Yes because you provided consent.

  11. HydeVDL Avatar

    type of shit I think when I eat little itty bitty parts of my skin around my nails

  12. lunarecl1pse Avatar

    Technically you can as there was a guy who ate his own amputated leg (he made tacos out it!) Source

  13. Paulpogbaloveyou1623 Avatar

    It’s not exactly legal but also not specifically outlawed. There’s no law that says it is but there are other laws that totally come into play, like murder, assault, or desecration of a corpse, which would pretty much cover it. Basically, you could end up in some serious trouble for doing something like that.

  14. QuietlySmirking Avatar

    I’m not that flexible.

  15. SoftwareDifficult186 Avatar

    One way to find out

  16. lsody Avatar

    no, tuck in.

  17. Chris__XO Avatar

    it’s not illegal but it might be hard unless you remove a rib or two and get very flexible

  18. calex_1 Avatar

    Oh to be that flexible. Seriously though, if you wanted to hack off your own leg, and roast it and eat it, I can’t see how it would be illegal. It is your own body after all.

  19. horsepighnghhh Avatar

    Your search history is…. Interesting