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vincent valentine.
Writer's Block
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Posts: 36 | August 21st, 2008 at 08:34pm The idea of giving criminals a last meal before execution doesn't make sense to me. Why do they even do that? Maybe one of you can tell me the point of this. |
Evanescent Dasha
Ink Slinger
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 895 | August 22nd, 2008 at 07:05am The last meal was offered to the prisoner to make it a truce between the condemned and the one's that condemned him/her. It was so that the prisoner would forgive them and not come back to haunt them from the afterlife.
I believe now it is done as a allowing the prisoner, who is about to die, something special and that they always loved. Have them remember the good times. |
vincent valentine.
Writer's Block
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Posts: 36 | August 22nd, 2008 at 06:34pm Hmmm...That actually makes a lot of sense. I think maybe now it is just out of tradition though. |
Lyzzla
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 320 | August 25th, 2008 at 05:12pm Delusional Dasha: The last meal was offered to the prisoner to make it a truce between the condemned and the one's that condemned him/her. It was so that the prisoner would forgive them and not come back to haunt them from the afterlife.
I believe now it is done as a allowing the prisoner, who is about to die, something special and that they always loved. Have them remember the good times.
rofl. I would still be pissed off and I would still haunt them. =P |
Skrillex.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 1171 | August 25th, 2008 at 06:02pm In pre-modern Europe, the ritual of granting the condemned a last meal has its seeds in common superstition: a meal was a highly symbolic social act. Accepting food, which was offered freely, meant to make one's peace with the host - the guest agreed tacitly to take an oath of truce and symbolically abjured all vengeance. Consequentially, in accepting the last meal the condemned was believed to forgive the executioner, the judge, and the witnessing mob. The ritual was supposed to prevent the delinquent from haunting those people, who were responsible for his or her killing, as a ghost or a revenant. The meal was therefore mainly a superstitious precaution and - following that logic - the better the food and the drinks, the safer the condemned's oath of truce. Last meals were often public and all parties which were involved in the penal process took part.
Pretty much what Delusional Dasha said.  |
Fag.
Amateur Author
Age: 74
Gender: Female
Posts: 206 | October 30th, 2008 at 11:48pm My god, that made me laugh for some reason. 
I don't think that prisoners should have a last meal, before they're sentenced to death, just cause
Whatever, that's just me.  |
druscilla; nazareth.
Ghostwriter
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Posts: 17955 | October 31st, 2008 at 07:31am Womanizer.:I don't think that prisoners should have a last meal, before they're sentenced to death, just cause
Then maybe we just shouldn't feed them at all.
-shrug-
Seems like the same logic to me. |
FrankieMonster
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Posts: 1245 | November 1st, 2008 at 06:27pm I say, why not give them a last meal?
They've committed a horrible crime, sure, but they're also going to pay for it with their life.
I say it makes a lot of sense to let them have one last good meal. |
Killing Loneliness
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 369 | November 1st, 2008 at 06:49pm I think it's a nice idea. Much better than going out on misery... |
sunshines
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Posts: 2856 | November 2nd, 2008 at 05:08am Killing Loneliness:I think it's a nice idea. Much better than going out on misery...
You're going out on misery though, you're going to die. |
die sektor
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 593 | November 2nd, 2008 at 06:08am sunshines:Killing Loneliness:I think it's a nice idea. Much better than going out on misery...
You're going out on misery though, you're going to die. I think that Killing Loneliness meant that it's not completely miserable for you because you have a "last meal". I mean, yeah, you're going to die - but it's almost as if having a last nice meal before you die is sort of softening the blow, so to speak.
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sunshines
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Posts: 2856 | November 2nd, 2008 at 07:20am die sektor:sunshines:Killing Loneliness:I think it's a nice idea. Much better than going out on misery...
You're going out on misery though, you're going to die. I think that Killing Loneliness meant that it's not completely miserable for you because you have a "last meal". I mean, yeah, you're going to die - but it's almost as if having a last nice meal before you die is sort of softening the blow, so to speak.
Okay, I get that. Sorry.
I'd feel like Hansel though...
Is the food better than prison food, on the last meal? |
die sektor
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 593 | November 2nd, 2008 at 07:38am ^I was under the impression that the prisoner got to choose their own meal. But I don't know if this is carried out in all countries who have the death penalty.
I don't know if it would be "better" as such, but I would assume that they would try and give them what they want. |
sunshines
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Posts: 2856 | November 2nd, 2008 at 07:40am So it's practically a way to walk out with dignity, that's the kind of message I receive from this. |
Electric Feel.
Amateur Author
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Posts: 222 | November 2nd, 2008 at 02:56pm But how does a meal give someone some dignity? Do you get to choose who you have the meal with , that would make some sense. |
Fallen From Grace
<33
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 7800 | November 2nd, 2008 at 03:25pm I see nothing wrong with it.
To me, it just seems like since they're going to be killed they might as well have something nice done for them before they go. Nothing to do with dignity. |
sunshines
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Posts: 2856 | November 3rd, 2008 at 07:57am The Corpse Bride.:But how does a meal give someone some dignity? Do you get to choose who you have the meal with , that would make some sense.
Well, if your given a choice of meal etc, it regains some human dignity because in prison you don't have much choice, it's more dictated to you what you have to do. |
Bloodraine
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 1329 | November 3rd, 2008 at 05:08pm die sektor:^I was under the impression that the prisoner got to choose their own meal. But I don't know if this is carried out in all countries who have the death penalty.
Probably not.
America is one of the only 'civilised' nations left that still kills people. |
Unrequited Love
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Posts: 1109 | November 30th, 2008 at 02:20am Fallen From Grace:I see nothing wrong with it.
To me, it just seems like since they're going to be killed they might as well have something nice done for them before they go. Nothing to do with dignity.
I fully agree with you. |
