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Let's eat. Each other.

  Let's eat. Each other. IRINA SLAV About a year ago, I came across a website that seemingly promoted the self-donation of dying people to be used for meat after death. It was a really well done website, simple yet elegant and very, very convincing, up to and including in the section about the organisation having obtained all legal documents necessary to conduct its activity. Taught by life to expect pretty much everything from my fellow human beings I took the website seriously, at first. So did a lot of other people who didn’t take the time to really dig into the website to find it was, in fact, “a conceptual art project”. I can understand why. The idea of eating other humans was too outstandingly horrific to provoke anything other than outrage and disgust. Of course, the website no longer exists. Or maybe it’s hidden well. In any case, I couldn’t find it but I did find a series of “fact-checks”  telling  anyone interested that the good people behind the website were only making