Trapped In the Snow With That Brother-In-Law Who Won't Stop Talking? Consider the Cannibal Lifestyle

Apparently there is some upside beyond even the blissful tranquility of silence.
From our 2010 post "Bite Me: An evolutionary case for cannibalism":

While
strolling last month through one of the dimly lit backrooms in a wing
of the National Galleries of Scotland, my inner eye still tingling with
thousands of Impressionistic afterimages, pudgy Rubensian cherubs, and
gothic quadrangles,