Would you want to survive an apocalypse or similar?

[Anonymous]

There's a reason for instant coffee. I like it with Swiss Miss or with French Vanilla Cappuccino from Sam's Club. SO GOOD. All you need is propane, an outside burner to heat water. Buy a lot of instant. Shelf life is forever.
There are no nuclear anythings so that worry shouldn't exist. That cheesy Night of the Living Dead freaked me out as a child but probably because we lived in the country within eye sight of a small Baptist church with a very small cemetery. Stuff I may have laughed at then I no longer laugh at.

There was a movie long ago, The Day After.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/

REALLY upset me. Could be because I had children by then. If you take away the nuke effects and apply what we have now as diseases go, it will give you nightmares. Do I want to survive and live like that ? HELL TO THE NO. But if I had to die so I wouldn't see my children or grandchildren die I would. My heart won't allow another death. I would gladly take my life. And just in case, I keep enough opioids to make sure it's done right.

Just so you all know, there are people, *cough Bill Gates and his ex man wife*, planning to cull us anyway they can think of so before anyone gets all haughty, that IS their plan.

[Anonymous]

My husband and I talk about this. He's super handy, but my major life skill is knitting. So I could barter for slow fashion items, and burn books for warmth. But I will not be eating squirrels and foraging for food. Also, I can't imagine any of this would be fun, so being in the blast zone, I'm not making a run for it. My husband thinks he can make it out...in a Subaru. I've been threatening my children that I would drop them off in Rock Creek Park if they "keep acting like that" so I hope they have also given this some thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a reason for instant coffee. I like it with Swiss Miss or with French Vanilla Cappuccino from Sam's Club. SO GOOD. All you need is propane, an outside burner to heat water. Buy a lot of instant. Shelf life is forever.
There are no nuclear anythings so that worry shouldn't exist. That cheesy Night of the Living Dead freaked me out as a child but probably because we lived in the country within eye sight of a small Baptist church with a very small cemetery. Stuff I may have laughed at then I no longer laugh at.

There was a movie long ago, The Day After.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/

REALLY upset me. Could be because I had children by then. If you take away the nuke effects and apply what we have now as diseases go, it will give you nightmares. Do I want to survive and live like that ? HELL TO THE NO. But if I had to die so I wouldn't see my children or grandchildren die I would. My heart won't allow another death. I would gladly take my life. And just in case, I keep enough opioids to make sure it's done right.

Just so you all know, there are people, *cough Bill Gates and his ex man wife*, planning to cull us anyway they can think of so before anyone gets all haughty, that IS their plan.

Why do you say that? There are plenty of nuclear weapons around, and bad actors.

To answer the OP's question, I have no intention of living like that, although I do have some skills. If our water supply is contaminated by say a nuclear event, there is most definitely no point in going on. If an extinction event like what took out the dinosaurs happens, that's also not long-term survivable for us. In fact, I can't think of very many large scale disastrous events where things get better if you just survive for a year or so.

[Anonymous]

I read The Road. Nope.

[Anonymous]

Just knowing that my boss had died in the cataclysm would give me the hope to go on.

[Anonymous]

I would want to survive. It would be interesting and I don’t mind physical drudgery. But realistically I am not going to survive. I’m in the fireball of anything nuclear and while I have useful long term skills like cooking and carpentry and garment making I am a terrible combatant and the zombies would get me in minutes. I would try my best to fight though, because I have babies and I can’t bear the idea of leaving them in a post-apocalyptic world alone or worse yet them dying.

(But again, realistically, the only person in my family who’s surviving is maaaaaaybe one of my cats. Maybe. They’re awfully spoiled.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so nearsighted and need special contacts/solution to see.
I'm a fresh and easy kill.

Same here. All anyone would need to do is steal my glasses. I could offer to be the clan’s needlepointer, but that’s pretty much it.

If my kids survived, I’d fight like he!! To stay with them. If given a choice I’d do what they are doing in Gaza, everyone goes to sleep in the same bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so nearsighted and need special contacts/solution to see.
I'm a fresh and easy kill.

I got LASIK several years ago, and joked in the pre-consultation when they asked what was motivating me looking into LASIK was the zombie apocalypse and that planning my first looting in the end of times would be a MyEyeDoctor or WalMart to grab ALL the LENSES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not as concerned about zombies these days given that the Republicans are attacking various people IRL.

The Trumpublican apocalypse

[Anonymous]

I think about what shoes I'd take. Some well worn in Doc Martens?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If my kids are alive, I'd do whatever it takes - if they die, I have no interest in going on.

+ a million

[Anonymous]

Hmmm, if I knew it would be a slow death from radiation, no.
However, I'm pretty scrappy and can do a lot of things. I'm not a foodie and will eat whatever. I have resources and my parents have land I could live off of (so far in the boonies it's ridiculous). I'd give it a fair chance.

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

The reality is that the food and water alone aren’t going to cut it. Medicine and medical care are necessary for survival. To me it seems like a slow drawn out miserable existence is so much worse than an immediate, didn’t see it coming one.

[Anonymous]

only so I can spike my hair and wear dark eye makeup and leather. I might sport an arm band or lip ring. Finally lose the last 10 pounds and then my arm muscles will really pop.