Would you want to survive a catastrophic event?

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The kind where groups of people are rebuilding from scratch?

I don’t, I’m too old to repopulate society. I have a prolapsed disc so heavy lifting/ uncomfortable sleeping and sitting would be a nightmare. I’m not brave or strong. I don’t have any skills that would make me an asset other that child care which I would not want to do.

It would depend what it was. Nuclear war, no.

Destruction caused by other things, yes.

I'm fit, have helpful skills and would fight for my DC, but anarchy around men is a deal breaker.

We've seen what they do to women and children in a "civilised" society with rules and laws, I wouldn't subject my DC to that kind of world.

As long as I knew I wasn’t leaving anyone I loved alone to struggle, then id go

I need to be alive to protect my child. So, yes. I would want to survive

yes because it depends on what caused it etc

I'm already exhausted and my life is fairly simple 😄

Whenever I read/watch a post-apocalyptic book/film I reflect that I'd probably be wiped out in the first wave. I'm not important or useful enough to be in a rescue bunker or ark.

Yes because I'm quite bored of life right now and would relish the excitement!

In reality, I wear contact lenses which I would have to take out at some point and then I'd be basically useless. I always wonder about short sighted people in these films.

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I actually can’t even think of these scenarios- too upsetting. It’s not me I care about it’s our children.

Not any more.

a few years ago, absolutely.

but I've since been made disabled by a stroke & now have some other health issues. I barely have the energy.ability to get through the day let alone actually DO anything. I'd be an absolute liability.

im driving towards the nuclear bomb.

Quote of the day.

Yes, I would. Even in the face of physical/social/environmental ruin, I would cling on until my last breath so I could help others in the same position. Maybe I wouldn't change much but I'd die trying. That's what being human means to me.

Sad how many people think it's edgy and cute to wish for instant death at the slightest thought of hardship or change. What a nation of soft, weak-spirited cowards we've become.

You get one life and you sometimes don't get to choose what your time on this earth looks like. You do get to choose what you do with it.

Im single and childless im not bothered either way.
Part of me wishes something would kick off in the UK, see who can survive, might shut a few up.

The other part off me says I hope not due to families having to live through it.

Nah seems a lot of effort

Not at all. Life looks so desolate after. I imagine the only positive thing is human connection

I've watched THREADS so no..

There is also a chilling scene in 28 days later when the female character realises how big the threat of rape is for her

This was my first thought as well, which is why I’d be a yes just to make sure my DC was okay.

Depends on the nature of the "event".

Nuclear apocalypse? Probably not.

Zombie apocalypse? Absolutely, in fact, I'll be heartbroken if I die of old age without having at least one legal recrimination-free opportunity to smash heads in with a nailed baseball bat.

I play a game with my kids when we are driving: oh that would be a good place in a zombie apocalypse (when driving past the navy barracks in Portsmouth) … but in reality I’m a type 1 middle aged diabetic and overweight too so I’d be eaten or die from lack of insulin. Same if there was a world wide nuclear catastrophe.

Depends entirely whether my children survive or not. If one or both of them survive, I'd want to survive too. They are young and still need me. But if my children didn't survive I most definitely wouldn't want to. No point.

Not as a women no.

No, I barely want to survive a minor inconvenience let alone a catastrophic one. 😂

Imagine finding notes from your grandparents and great-grandparents who survived the blitz, and finding that they were self-absorbed narcissists who spent the whole time hoping they'd get killed in their beds because they couldn't deal with the anxiety and added responsibilities.

Now imagine it's 2026 and you admit something very similar and somehow manage not to feel sick with shame at yourself.

Honestly if I heard a warning that a nuke was falling on London I'd be tempted to grab the family and go somewhere we could be sure to be instantly incinerated.