What Would You Do If … Dilemmas In A Zombie Apocalypse: No. 17 – The Donner Party Dilemma
The three of you have been locked in the warehouse for months, surrounded by zombies that batter and tear at every door and shutter, scratching their fingers into bony stumps in their efforts to get in. You ate the last of the food six weeks ago and you know you’re dying from starvation. Then you hear the news you’ve been waiting for coming over the little wind-up radio you found: what’s left of the army are finally making headway against the undead hordes and if you can only survive long enough, within a few weeks you might finally be free. You look round at your companions and realise one of them has finally succumbed to the lack of food. You glance at your fellow survivor, then back to the dead body. That’s when something occurs to you: there’s enough meat left on him to allow you to last until the army get to your city and clear out the zombies. This means that if you eat him, you’ll survive long enough to be rescued. If you don’t you will die in a matter of days. What do you do?
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This dilemma was inspired by two previous posts on this blog, both of which considered the scenario of cannibalism within groups of people trapped in buildings during a zombie apocalypse. The first considered the likelihood that this would happen, while the second was a short story based around this type of situation.
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