If you woke in the morning and all humans had disappeared

[SolitaryTree]

What would you do?
How would you feel?
Who would you pick to be alive with you if you could pick a person/group of people?
I often imagine this scenario….

I often imagine this scenario….

Why? It's quite depressing.

Presumably the gas & electricity grid will stop.working very soon, so I'd focus on finding a house with its own electricity generation plus a vegetable garden. Also amass a small fleet of electric vehicles.
And learn to fish.

I'm reminded of this question: "What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?"

what-if.xkcd.com/8/

Become Mother Earth and be one with the flora and fauna.

I don't think I would survive. I don't know how to hunt or fish and everything I grow gets eaten by slugs.

I would spend my days opening cages and barns, letting all the animals out.

@ThirdElephant just curiosity I suppose. I think of strange things at times!

@WaggleToWarlock I can see myself disappearing into a wormhole with that what if link!

I'd probably just take my own life , why delay the inevitable

@WallaceinAnderland bloody slugs! 🤣

I wouldn’t notice until Tuesday when I turned up for work.
Did I read a book about this at school? Z for Zacharia. Or something.

It might be alright for an hour or so tops; total peace and quiet.

Then, it'd be terrible. No food, electricity and power would shut off. Blah.

I’d go to the nearest hospital and stock up on drugs like antibiotics and painkillers, first aid stuff.

Then raid a supermarket or six for long life food. Get vegetable seeds and chickens. Find some goats/cows. Candles, cigarette lighters.

Set up a self sufficient small holding. Mil lives on one so I’d probably go there….it has a fresh water water supply.

Have you not ever watched any apocalypse films?

There is always a handsome survivor who saves the plebs like me!

I’m imagining a young Kurt Russell dressed in leathers and brandishing an array of weapons, so I would go and search for him!

I'd be a bit lost. Water, electricity and gas wouldn't last long. I suppose I could break out the camping gear for a stove and then break into some camping shops for calor gas so I could cook. There would be plenty of tinned food about and our local garden centre sells seeds I could take. I think I'd struggle massively very quickly though knowing my family we no longer there.

@Tlollj I don’t think I’d notice for a while either!
I’ve not heard of the book but I’m going to look online now!
@ThreeWitches I can only imagine that everything that already exists on this planet, even in one city, would be enough to sustain a life until old age?

I've just though, there would be horrendous animal suffering. No one to feed farm animals or pets etc.

I'd think I was in an episode of Black Mirror

@Disfordarkchocolate You could keep your family ♥️ One of my questions was “Who would you pick to be alive with you if you could pick a person/group of people?”

I'd keep DH, but TBH I think I'd let my parents and DS go. My parents because I think they'd be too old now to cope with how different life would have to be and DS because once DH and I were gone, he'd be totally alone. Bloody depressing thought though!

I might move to the farm in our town and have a go at keeping the animals and crops alive, I'm not sure we'd have the skills to do that though, especially without power.

Go back to bed and have a good sleep. Break into a pharmacy. Find a combination of drugs, bring them home, get back into bed and take them. I’ve no interest in being a lone survivor without resources, doctors, dentists, mechanics, manufacturers etc etc.

If my family were there? Depends. If there was still sufficient population for a reasonable community I’d probably keep going. If it was just the four of us then some variation on the first paragraph I expect.

Enjoy the peace!

I’ve no interest in being a lone survivor
But haven't you watched post apocalypse movies - there are always others, you've just got to work out how to contact them and hope they are friendly

I’d secure myself as much drinking water as possible.

Source as much firewood as possible for my stove over the winter as I would now need it for cooking and heating water as well as heating the house.

Get LOTS of books from the library as I’d need to research more DIY, how to do more serious first aid on myself etc.

God knows what I’d do for the thousands of farm animals that would starve to death in the fields around me.

I was part of a book club and I started writing a book that was what happened when the electricity failed - everywhere -
Quite scary once you get going, food goes off, phones don't work, heating won't work (pump for radiators), no tv or radio, cars would work until they ran out of fuel, then pumps probably wouldn't work at petrol station, can't buy stuff, tills don't work etc etc etc

If I’m the only human alive I’d end it myself. I’d shit myself in a world of only animals.

If I could choose a group of people - DH and kids, DS’s best friend (really practical and knows buildings) and my sister are the first that spring to mind.