'Gentleman Cannibal' Poses Legal Dilema

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Armin Meiwes, the German computer expert who gained worldwide notoriety by killing and eating a willing victim, stands trial on Wednesday in a case of sexually inspired cannibalism so perplexing it could make legal history.

Meiwes, 42, described by his lawyer as a "gentleman of the old school," has confessed to killing a Berlin man who answered an advertisement he had posted on the Internet seeking a fit man "for slaughter."

They met in Meiwes's elegant half-timbered home in the town of Rotenburg, central Germany, in March 2001. Meiwes killed the man, named only as Bernd-Juergen B., with a kitchen knife and filmed the deed on video tape which may be shown at the trial.

Meiwes's lawyer Harald Ermel said it took the victim nearly 10 hours to bleed to death and that he had repeatedly urged Meiwes to keep on cutting him.

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Um...

I don't know where to begin. Even if the victim wants to be killed and eaten, this is just sickening. It's not euthanasia to kill a person for meat. It's murder.

And the little cannibalism economy promoted by Meiwes is unspeakable.

And the guy repeatedly told him to keep cutting?????

This jus might get popular

This should take about three seconds to decide

In one article, he theorized that there are 800 cannibals living in Germany. Scary.

that's even more disturbing than the people who got married at walmart.

LOL

Not so very different than any other preditor, now, except perhaps for the seeming LACK of rational thought? Further, no prey WANTS to be eaten in the rest of the animal world.