[Evisceration]

Wow, I was just about to post this....

KASSEL, Germany (AP) -- A German who confessed to killing a man he met over the Internet and eating his flesh should spend life behind bars for murder, prosecutors have demanded.

During closing arguments on Monday, prosecutor Marcus Koehler said defendant Armin Meiwes, 42, acted simply to "satisfy a sexual impulse."

He filmed himself dismembering the victim before he ate him so he could "admire himself as a human butcher," Koehler said. Meiwes considered eating his victim as a kind of twisted "communion," he added.

Defense lawyer Harald Ermel argued that the death was "homicide on demand" -- a form of mercy killing -- because the victim had given his consent to be killed and eaten. That would carry a maximum five-year prison sentence.

When his trial opened on December 3 at the state court in the central city of Kassel, Meiwes confessed in detail to the March 2001 killing of 43-year-old Bernd Juergen Brandes at his home in the nearby town of Rotenburg.

Brandes, who had traveled from Berlin after answering Meiwes' Internet postings, wanted to be stabbed to death after drinking a bottle of cold medicine to lose consciousness, Meiwes testified.

A grisly video he made of the act was shown to the court in a closed session during the trial. A doctor testified that Brandes died from loss of blood and that the medication, along with a half-bottle of liquor and 20 sleeping pills he took beforehand, could not have lessened his pain.

Several experts have testified that Meiwes was fit to stand trial and was not mentally ill.

Police tracked down and arrested Meiwes in December 2002 after a student in Austria alerted them to a message Meiwes had posted on the Internet seeking a man willing to be killed and eaten.

A verdict in the trial is expected Friday.

And here's a picture of the modern day Hannibal.