Moral or Ethical Dilema!

[whbae]

I read a book called "In the Heart of the Sea" This book discribes the tragedy of the whaleship Essex in 1800's out of Natcuket, MA. I now wish I did not read it. The book discribes the surviving crews ate dead crew members in order to suvive. Similar instance happened in modern days in Chile when a airplane went down to a mountain region. The people ate other dead person to survive. It bothers me, is it morally or ethically all right to eath other human being under extreme conditions? This question still lingers with me. What do you think?

Won

[phkrause]

I read a book called "In the Heart of the Sea" This book discribes the tragedy of the whaleship Essex in 1800's out of Natcuket, MA. I now wish I did not read it. The book discribes the surviving crews ate dead crew members in order to suvive. Similar instance happened in modern days in Chile when a airplane went down to a mountain region. The people ate other dead person to survive. It bothers me, is it morally or ethically all right to eath other human being under extreme conditions? This question still lingers with me. What do you think?

Won

Not sure won what I would do if this ever came up! I do know that I would not do this, but I've never been in this situation. But believe that God would not allow us to get into something that we could not get out of. I wonder if any of these people even thought about praying?

pk

[GreatLakesGramma]

The Donner Party, a group of emigrants heading for California in the 1840s, gained notoriety throughout the nation, when some of them resorted to cannibalism after being trapped by snowstorms and running out of food.

[GreatLakesGramma]

I have surrendered my life into God's hands, and consider it to be all His to do with as He sees fit. I choose to trust and obey Him no matter what happens. So I feel that if He were to choose that I starve to death, that is His choice to make. I only pray that I would have the strength to trust and obey him if/when the situation became bad enough to possibly affect my reason. He is able to work miracles to feed His people, and does so even in this day and age. And He is just as able to give us the strength to resist even the most overwhelming temptations.

Of course, the persons you've read about most likely had not made such a commitment. They may not have been Christians either. Or if they were, they may have never learned how to accept God's power to stand fast in such extreme situations.

Have you read the Adventist book, Adrift, by Grenville Lee Dunstan? I did. A group of several Adventist young men from the South Pacific islands were adrift at sea for months. Only one of them died. He was one who had the guilt of crime on his conscience, and would not accept that he could be forgiven. The father of one of the young men was given the message in a dream the moment he died. The Adventist people of their village took this as a message also that the rest of them were still alive. They never stopped praying for them. It was a very inspiring book.

[whbae]

Those crews of the whaleboat were Quakers out of Nantucket which was established the quakers. Ironically, only crew members who died were african-americans who were very spiritual. Except one white man who was killed by other crew member after drawing lots. The states that the black crews did pray for the entire members, evern sang some hyms.

Anyway there is no answer to this situation.

But, the case of David comes to my mind. He ate the bread which was fobidden for him to eat.

He rationalized that he was hungry and in flight, and there was no other way to get food for him and his men.

Won