It is the day after Thanksgiving, and maybe you're still letting that food settle down a bit,

work its way through you, just in time to have the leftovers today, right? So today I thought

it would be appropriate to talk about food, and one that I feel guilty about it, but it does, it makes me hungry when I think about it.

And that'd be famous last meals. Welcome the council of Trent. Mondays and Wednesdays,

we talk apologetics and theology. Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about. And today,

I want to talk about famous last meals. It's a pretty long tradition, at least in America, but they do this in other countries as well,

of giving an inmate convicted on death row, given the death penalty, to have his choice, basically, of what his last meal would be.

And now there's myths and realities related to this.

They have tightened it up a lot in recent years. But at least a few decades ago,

a lot of times people had, sky was a limit on what some people could ask for. When I see it,

and there's a photographer named Harry Hargraves,

who's created photographic reconstructions of a lot of these last meals. When you look at them,

you say, oh, that'd be nice to have. It's almost like if you ate that big enough meal and just

like put you to sleep, and then maybe you would just get through everything a lot easier,

at least if it's, you know, lethal injection or something.

So obviously it's, you don't want to make light of killing and things like that.

But I don't know why, but just looking at the last meals, I mean, it does make me think, like, what if I was imprisoned in a unjust country, you know, I was executed on a, sorry, I was, you know, a false charge or something

like that, or, you know, it was just illegal to be Catholic or Christian. And so I was, you know,

it was my last meal. What would I ask for? Honestly, what I'd asked for is probably similar to

one in 1916 in England. Roger Casement was convicted of treason for, I guess,

getting help from the German Empire for an event called the Easter Rising.

He was sentenced to be hanged on hung in the year 1916.

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