Emergency?
Well, it's not that I begrudge anyone anything, but I always wonder why someone would want a last meal in an emergency. And in this case, by emergency I mean when you're on death row or have been sentenced to death. Then you get to say what you want to eat for your last meal. When I see this in a film, I have mixed feelings about it. Would someone really sit down to a lavish meal knowing they'll be dead within the hour, executed while a group of people watch, whether with schadenfreude or not? It seems to me that you'd have other things on your mind and be a nervous wreck. That's also something you see in films, where people literally collapse when they have to walk that last mile. In a way, I quite admire the bastards, the real criminals who take those last steps with their heads held high and die with pride. Try putting yourself in their shoes.
What would it be like to sit there and watch someone get an injection, a noose around their neck, or be electrocuted... Most people can't even bear to watch their own pet get an injection and simply hand over that responsibility.
At the same time, they stand there with their cameras in hand when an emergency occurs. They call it disaster tourism. YouTube is full of it. Helping someone is no longer an option, whether it's a stranger or someone in your own home or a close neighbour or friend. It's strange when you think about how we enjoy the suffering of others, some even when they can't witness how another person is suffering. No one offers a helping hand, because that would show a lack of character and people are afraid for their own safety. Apparently, fear does not arise when you are hidden behind a camera filming the incident. There is no fear for your own life when it is posted on YouTube or other social media.
The last meal? Most who die will not get one (did you know that your bowels and bladder empty spontaneously when you die?), and the same is true for many who are alive. There is no choice. Some stuff themselves, while others try to survive on a handful of food a day... for the whole family.
And as the prisoner stares at his last meal, the only thing he can think about is: my grandmother cooked better than this; this is not how it should look, smell, and certainly not taste. I'll leave that last dish alone; I'm not desperate enough to die of food poisoning.
Prompts: emergency + last dish
29-1-2026
I think that the last meal thing comes from the times when people in prison were fed dry bread and something or nothing, i.e. when they were given almost nothing to eat. But why this could be a last wish is absolutely inexplicable to modern man, you're right. But now, reading this, and prompted by recent reflections, I'm thinking this: Suicide is forbidden, right? Taking your own life, for whatever reason, is stigmatized with threats of all sorts. At the same time, taking someone else's life isn't that big of a deal. It's true, you'll be sentenced, but if you're sentenced to death, i.e. some people decide that you should die, that's not a big deal either. And how many people's lives are taken in wars by other people - that's also not a big deal. Isn't that a huge paradox?
Regarding the lack of desire in people to help, this is another modern paradox that I have observed for many years in a country like Bulgaria, where man is a wolf to man, as they say. But that this terrible trait of human nature is spreading in Western European countries, I did not know, and I did not suspect that it could happen.🤔Enjoying the suffering of others could be explicable in poor countries. But absolutely inexplicable in the rich ones.
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I agree with you, I don't think a person who knows they are going to die has an appetite.