Does anyone know what kind of help the survivors received once they were rescued?
Just thinking about eating someone to stay alive, never mind a friend or loved one, makes me uneasy.
They must have had nightmares for years afterwards.
From what I've read, they took it surprisingly well
They went through extensive psychiatric therapy, individual and group, but were casual about the whole thing.
During group, they had a running "joke," where they'd stare at the therapist and claim to be hungry
It's also worth note that, when the helicopters arrived, the pilots were horrified to see human bones and severed limbs lying around, because the survivors no longer cared enough to hide what they'd been doing.
I suppose it's to be expected -- only the hardiest, most practical of people could do what they did. Anyone who'd have issues with it would've simply starved.
only the hardiest, most practical of people could do what they did
Maybe, but I've also always been struck by Bligh's declaration in "The Bounty"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4edIxzhU80
When Nelson offers his body as food when he dies, Bligh tells him "we're civilized men ... and civilized men we shall die."
But of course Hopkins went on to play Hannibal Lecter, so who's to say?
I can’t remember what Bligh’s predicament was and how they were planning to get to shore, but if there’s a chance of survival then it’s just foolish to needlessly let yourself starve.
Bligh was a stubborn, ultra-principled bastard, and seemed to have something of a death wish. I don’t take his stance seriously.
It’s ironic, as you say, that Hopkins went on to play cinema’s most famous cannibal a few years after.
If you read the book ‘Society of the Snow” by Pablo Vierci you will learn about how the survivors coped with it. Vierci went to school and is a friend of several of the survivors. Each survivor gets his own chapter in the book and several of them describe about it still affects them. Also at least six of the survivors (Carlos, Pedro, Eduardo, Nando, Roberto and Coche) have written their own books about their ordeal.
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