Stranded in the Mountains

The reading about the people stuck in the mountains reminded me of "Life of Pi". In that novel, the main character, Pi, is stranded on the ocean for 7 months with only a tiger as a companion. Pi was a strict vegatarian but he was forced to eat fish in order to survive. He eventually became barbaric and just ripped at the fish with his teeth like an animal. In the reading, the people were foreced to resoret to animalistic instincts to survive. They were forced to eat other humans. The moment this struck me most was when one person found a cold dead hand somebody had stashed away for a snack. Pi was very religious, like the people in the sotry, he believed God would forgive him for eating the animals. The people in the reading knew they had to stay alive even though they may have had to eat their family members.
It is so sureal to me the think that the story in the reading really happened. I can't even envision being so desperate for my life that I would resort to canabilism. I lives such a sheltered, pampered life that tragic stories and adverse misfortune, such as poverty, seem ficional.
If I had been in their situation, I would have eaten the humans. Howerver, I don't kow if I could overcome the revoltion and sheer tragedy of eating my own family members.