You only have toothpaste and a few pieces of candy to eat...until Dec. 23rd..

[formerrepuke]

..think you can do it?

35 years ago tomorrow, October 13th 1972, this plane departed from Montevideo, Uruguay headed for Santiago, Chile:

..but didn't make it:

..they weren't rescued until December 23, 1972:


72 DAYS OF BITTER COLD, HUNGER, AND DESPERATION* (*did we mention the hunger?)

[_testify_]

1. I think they had a bit more than candy and toothpaste to eat.

Not saying they were wrong...

[anarch]

2. oh, you mean that...I thought you'd seen my bank account balance or something

[MrCoffee]

3. that plane was chock full of unprocessed Soylent Green

[Connonym]

4. would you do it? alternately, would you object to it if you were one of the dead?

I don't know if I could get past the revulsion but on the other hand if I was already dead I guess I wouldn't really care if my body got eaten. if I was already dead I'm not that familiar with this -- did they kill anyone to eat them or just eat the ones who were dead?

[formerrepuke]

5. ..they only ate ones who had died from their injuries.. and they

started with the pilots- because they were not close acquaintances..and because the pilots were the ones who crashed the plane (even if not intentionally). The book 'Alive' by Piers Paul Read is one of the best works non-fiction.

[SmokingJacket]

6. I'd do it if I was crazed from hunger.

I'm pretty sure my drive to stay alive is extremely strong. But I'd never kill someone to do it. And once I was dead, you all should go for it.

[Javaman]

7. A truly amazing book. I highly recommend it to anyone. nt