In Defense of Necrophilia

[DANAT4T]

I don't see necrophiles as bad people and I don't hate or resent them. One benefit of being a pedophile is that it has taught me to be sceptical of hate and be slow to judge.

If I knew someone who was a necrophile I could be friends with them, I wouldn't be anti towards them. I would encourage them not to do it for real though because I think it can cause real upset to family. If I was dead and someone had sex with me then I wouldn't care, I'd be dead, I'd say fill your boots if it really helps. But, if I discovered someone had sex with a dead relative of mine I'd be angered.

What if I found out that the person had been given consent while the relative was alive? I think that's different. If someone gave consent while alive then I'd find it very strange, but I would feel wrong to object. If that was the dying wishes of someone, I'd feel guilty if I objected. It's like if someone left all their money to some organisation or person or cause I didn't like, I'd have to accept it because it's their money and choice.

Personally I think it should be illegal to have sex with a corpse without consent but someone should be able to give consent since it's their own body.
I suppose it's like I've read before of cannibals who have eaten people who have consented to be killed and eaten. I think that should be illegal, at lest the killing part, but if someone died of natural causes and said in their will that they wanted to be donated to a cannibal, should that be illegal?

On the issue of cannibalism, what would you think of human hunting where people who survive would win prizes. Personally, it would not be for me but I don't think that it should be stopped either.

[CantChainTheSpirit]

On the issue of cannibalism, what would you think of human hunting where people who survive would win prizes. Personally, it would not be for me but I don't think that it should be stopped either.

Like you, it isn't for me but then I don't think I should stop others if that's what they really want to do. I don't think people should be pressured into anything, but if there was a big prize and someone really wanted to do it then why not?

I read recently that the highest paid sportsman in history was a charioteer who made billions in today's money, racing in deadly races in Rome. Brutal and deadly but he made a fortune and loved the sport.

[Not Forever]

In itself I agree, I'll just add a note about the naturalistic fallacy and the evolutionary argument: evolution explains how we came to be the way we are, it doesn't dictate how we ought to be. If a person is a necrophiliac, it means there are evolutionary bases for why they are that way; by the very definition of their condition, their condition is natural.

[Scorchingwilde]

Given the intense legal scrutiny around dead human bodies I think the best way forward for them is for statements about necrophilia to be included in a person's will, giving either blanket use of their body for anyone or for a surviving partner, or no one at all.
Side note, I do wonder philosophically about necrophilia as a particular kind of attraction, and whether attraction is related to to person being dead and gone or just the sensory aspects of dead bodies. If fantasy or sci-fi vampires were real with cold, lifeless bodies and no heartbeat, how many necrophiles would be attracted to them?