What Would You Do?

In class we read the short story Survivors of F227 which is about a rugby team that was traveling to a game when their plane crashed into the Andes Mountains. After being stranded for months their food supply ran out and they were forced to make a decision. Given the fact that the deceased were still composed they made the decision to start eating the dead. This is something that we can't even comprehend. They had to overcome tough mental obstacles and to get over these the survivors created a mindset that redefined their social construction of reality. They convinced themselves it was ok to eat the bodies since they no longer had souls while others told themselves it was what God wanted them to do. They created a new society and that society required rules which consisted of no eating woman or children, no one was forced to eat, and everyone was given an equal amount of food. This new lifestyle that they chose to adapt to helped them survive until they were eventually rescued.