Okay, fine, if sirenomelia doesn’t disturb you, this cannibal stuff in Germany better. After doing anatomy for a quarter, and spending hours alone with dead bodies, peeling through them, and flipping them side to side, I’ve grown a pretty strong stomach. We all have. But there’s a limit. We still freak out if a piece of fat comes flying out of the bag, still wash obsessively if one of our mucked gloves touches our skin. I remember thinking how gruesome and violent we were–cutting open bodies, pulling limbs from their sockets–but I now see the difference between medicine and insanity. (This is also eerily well timed to GruntDoc’s favorite Dilbert cartoon .)

Now onto the story. Armin Meiwes, this German in some small town, ate an entire person. Well, froze and then ate him. (Might be good to stop here if you’re feint of heart.) The Guardian has the story with the gruesome details, along with Yahoo and the BBC . This stuff makes my stomach crawl, and has nothing on Hannibal Lector, since this stuff is real . Meiwes met his victim over the Internet, and claims his victim wanted to be killed and eaten since he was a child. I won’t go any further, but I guarantee you the conservative right is going to find some way to blame this on the homosexuals. I think that I’m now ready to get back to studying, if only to get this story out of my head.

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