The Golden Compass question

I don't think you could. It would be like eating your own arm. It would most likely be physically painful to YOURSELF. Hypothetically, you could perhaps target someone else's daemon, but it would probably be seen as a form of cannibalization (since it's a part of a PERSON).

Can someone live without their daemon? I can't remember. I know (view spoiler)[ Lyra and Will are separated from theirs for a bit, but they were never dead. (hide spoiler)]

And Irini, if you feel like there are more important and interesting topics to discuss, why don't you go make your own thread and discuss them there?

And why would you want to do that?? I know it's theoretical, but surely there are more important or interesting topics to discuss?

I'm not sure you could, either. I don't know... your daemon IS part of your soul, and you can feel things that your daemon feels and vice versa, so I think Kyra is right: you would be hurting yourself AND your daemon.
Also, none of the Golden Compass characters would even CONSIDER eating their daemons.

I don't think you could get the chance. If your dæmon dies, you die (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A6m...). So unless you tried to eat your dæmon alive, you would be dead before you had a chance to eat it. And if you did attempt to eat it alive, you'd probably die during or immediately after the process.

Essentially, it would be like committing suicide by trying to eat your own heart. Would it even be possible to live long enough after ripping your heart out of your chest to eat it? I highly doubt it.

That's enough disturbing conversation for me today, I think.

why would you want to eat your daemon?!?!?!?!

Magic/Soul-assisted suicide?

I suppose if the person got hungry enough it's possible *shrug* People will do things they normally wouldn't when they're starving to death. I've heard a story about a little boy eating his own flesh, he was so hungry, so why not a person eating their daemon?

the more pressing question is: of all the names the author could use why the hell are they called dæmons!?

it's one letter away from demons, right?

My daemon, of course, would have to be a bucket of chicken.

You would become one?