Quote Originally Posted by fetishdj View Post
If anyone knows more details I would be interested in finding out what happened.
If you really want the gory details, here goes: The guy (Armin Meiwes) is called "Der Kannibale von Rotenburg" (the cannibal of Rotenburg). He cut off and ate the victims' genitals and filmed it too. The guy who got killed was not terminally ill but severely depressed.
He was convicted of "murder to satisfy his sexual desires" and got a life sentence. An appeal to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (the highest court in Germany) was turned down on October 24th this year.

Lifelong in Germany means: He may get out in 15 years if by then he is not considered to be dangerous anymore.

(FAZ, 24.10.2008 FAZ

So he was convicted of murder, even when the other gave his consent to being killed. Unfortunately i didn't find out with what arguments he appealed to Germany's constitutional court.

As for the rest: Very interesting thread; until someone told me of their fantasy a week ago i didn't even know that people had such fantasies. The only time i heard about snuff was in a movie with Nicolas Cage but that's a movie. At least i hope it doesn't happen in reality.