[extropy-chat] The Funeral as an "act of conspicuous consumption"

[Robert J. Bradbury]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, randy wrote:

> Recent science seems to show that cannabalism was common in the past:

> "The question is why has cannibalism, by and large, stopped?

Couldn't the explanation be as simple as the fact that most
of the people who practiced it have died out due to prion
diseases (such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)?

Robert