This is the first cannibalism story of the year and it brings us to New Zealand.
A depressed man decided to cut off a finger, cooked it with vegetables and eat it.
After the 28-year-old man ate the finger he planned to dine on two more before deciding instead to seek medical treatment where he was diagnosed with moderate symptoms of depression. The patient was said to suffer 'episodes of low mood' and once while depressed he was assaulted by two men.
He felt extreme anger and for the first time fantasied about not only killing his assailants, but of eating them too.
At the end of 2008, following another personal crisis, he experienced significant insomnia and suicidal thoughts, along with ideas about cutting off his fingers.
It was then he tied a shoelace around his (little) finger to act as a tourniquet and cut the finger off with a jigsaw. He then cooked it in a pan with some vegetables and ate its flesh. His plan was to amputate another two fingers the following day. After eating one finger he instead decided to seek medical treatment where he was diagnosed with moderate symptoms of depression.
