The Angean Plane Crash - 1972

The note that the survivors wrote to get help to their mates who are still on the mountain.

The mountain where the plane crashed.

View from helicopter.

The Angean Plane Crash in 1972, was about the plane that crashed, on one of the mountain among the thousands in between Argentina and Chile. The survivors ate the body of their dead mates to survive on top of the chilling, snowing, no other signs of living creature mountain. And they remained alive by eating human flesh for 72 days until 3 survivors climbed for 10 days over the mountains, without any equipment, without any knowledge or experience, and reached Chile, called for help to rescue their mates. They were reluctant to tell the public that they survived by eating the bodies, and they told the press that they survived on eating the cheese that they carried on board, until an unauthorised article was published together with photos, they were being called as Cannibals. And even when they return to their homeland, Uruguay, they were being welcomed by newspapers with headline "Cannibals are back".

Ladies and gentleman, the issue is, whether human life supercede dignity of a dead person, or otherwise. Well, apparently some people think that the survivors should choose to starve to death on top of the showing mountain, but not to eat the dead body, because the dead bodies, belonged to human.

Maybe there's no definite right or wrong answer, that depends on your own way to value dignity and a life.

But here's my own personal view. I think that did just the right thing to eat the dead body to survive. The reason is simple, because for me, a living human is more important than preserving a dead body. A dead person, is.. just gone.. the body is nothing but a lifeless shell, and why should we let go of our life for preserving a life-less shell? I don't see the point. Just like what one of the survivors said:" Why should I feel guilty, I should celebrate for life."

I'm not boosting or supporting Cannibalism here, neither am I like human flesh nor ate human flesh. I don't even dare to imagine that taste. Neither do the survivors wished to eat the human flesh. They are Roman Catholics, most of them are, for God's sake. It took them for a few days to make the decision to eat the dead body, because they know that its either die, or eat the bodies. But their decision wasn't wrong, at least there are people who supported them, who tell them they did just the right thing, including the priest.

BUT, this still varies from people to people. My dad, for example, is disgusted by them, because he thinks that, the dead body are human, even though dead, so they shouldn't have ate them. When I heard him said this, it made me think of something about the value of life; is human's life more precious just because we are human, because we call ourselves as the King of all the living creatures in this world? Why didn't we think about the same thing when we are happily eating chicken, lamb, mutton, etc etc etc.... Is their life so valueless? Although me myself is a Omnivore, and i didn't have to thought to be a vegetarian, I got no stand to fight for the right to live for these animals. But still, I think that we shouldn't over value human life. It is inappropriate, to fix the principle that a human should not eat a dead human body in order to survive, but a human got every right to kill a living animal for food.

It is incredible for these people to get to survive on top of a showing mountain with no winter equipment, food and water, but dead bodies and snow. They had done what an ordinary human cannot do. Quote from the survivor, We should celebrate for life.