This seems way more sensible to me. I understand if the actual underlying crime should be innocent until proven guilty but if you are insane that specifically should be a higher burden of proof .
I just don’t think unqualified layman in the jury really should be the ones deciding whether someone was clinically insane or not.
The jury should just deliberate on whether the defendant committed the crime in question, if they rule they did, then the defense should be able to request a review by a panel of mental health experts who will be tasked with determining whether the defendant was criminally liable or clinically insane.
That would require amending the Constitution, which is no longer possible. You couldn't get Congressmen to agree cannbalism should be outlawed if the "other side" proposed the amendment.
Technically and legally, it can be done (except in idaho, cannibalism is banned). The hardest part would be convincing a hospital to release to you what is considered regulated medical waste. Sometimes they make exceptions for religious or deeply personal beliefs, like mothers requesting placentas for burial or cremation, but they probably won't if they think you're going to do something weird. Assuming you can get it released, the next hurdle is making sure it's actually safe to eat. It may have been kept refrigerated in the mortuary but you don't know how long it's been kept at room temperature or if it was exposed to pathogens (plenty of those in hospitals). Another issue is that human muscles do a lot of work. We aren't bred for our meat and generally, the older the animal, the worse the meat is. You likely wouldn't enjoy eating your own leg.
May you do it? Yes (except in Idaho)
Can you do it? Maybe, if you can convince a hospital to release it
No you shouldn't, you're not a butcher and there's food safety to consider. Nothing to do with cannibalism everything to do with not dying shitting yourself !
It's more about the meat itself, how sure are you that 1 your meat doesn't have bacteria, virus that might survive the cooking process ?
2 doesn't containt heavy metals or problematic medication ?
3 since I suppose there's at least a couple weeks between cutting and eating how sure can you be of the "freshness".
Handling food is a complicated thing that's why there's do many regulations most of then at production level !
Not trying to piss in the soup just saying butcher is a hard job !
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u/hallo_its_me 12h ago
This seems way more sensible to me. I understand if the actual underlying crime should be innocent until proven guilty but if you are insane that specifically should be a higher burden of proof .