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.

I would die within a few weeks without my medication. I’d rather just die quickly and not have to suffer.

With my underactive thyroid and dodgy eyesight I wouldn’t survive long, so I would want to be taken out first.

Once I ran out of HRT patches the zombies would run from me.

I don’t feel at all ashamed to say I’d rather not survive a worldwide catastrophic event such as a huge asteroid or nuclear bomb. I think it’s a perfectly reasonable opinion to have and no reason for shame. I find your perspective unusual!

The people who don't have what you have. If you struggled to buy toilet roll during COVID it should show there's plenty of the type about. A catastrophic event is anything that stops civilization as we know it but doesn't kill everyone.

Yes I would.

And I think those that say 'I would drive straight toward the nuke' are mostly full of shit. People think it's a cool thing to say but it's not realistic.

In emergencies and sudden disaster scenarios, the human instinct to survive is innate and strong. If you had an out of the blue 15 minute warning that a nuke was about to drop and you were in the immediate blast zone, the vast majority of people would be panicking and racing for the car to try and survive. No, you wouldn't be serenely making a cup of tea and staring off into the distance like in some God-awful daytime movie 😂

I also think most people over-catastrophise what would happen if a nuke dropped on the UK. I mean, it would of course be awful and if you're in the blast zone, you're fucked obviously...but the UK is a big place and the impact lessens the further away you are. I think lots of people think of the entire UK being like some post-apocalyptic scene, with burning skyscrapers and desolation everywhere. But outside of the affected area of a nuke, physically you and your surroundings are good.

If, for instance, they dropped the largest nuke know to exist on central London...if you live in Swindon, you're fine. Not so much as a cracked windowpane or upset stomach. No increased risk of cancer. The immediate impact on the majority of the UK would be NIL.

Life would of course change. So many impacts on the economy, life would be hugely disrupted, more people would die due to food or water or medical shortages. But the impact wouldn't be SO much that i'd rather me and my family just died. I'd want to give survival a decent shot. In 100 years, a nuke on London would be a history book disaster but not an apocalyptic event for most of us.

That's 'A' nuke though. Obviously in a full blown nucleur war it would be different but for that to happen you'd need every world leader to collectively decide to end it all and deploy everything they have which I don't think is very likely.

Absolutely. I love a singalong. I'm pretty good at making up lyrics if we can't quite remember the words.

As self appointed organiser I 100% would find what you were good at, and make most of your skills and knowledge. Can you play an instruments, be on watch out duty, manage a paper spreadsheet, chop food, tells jokes, draw maps, know how to brew beer the list is endless . You will be needed!!

If it was a major apocalyptic event then no. Films and books make it look a bit glamorous, whereas in reality it would be horrific, and as a woman with a daughter I would not want us to survive, the worst kinds of men would take control.

Not a nuclear winter, but I’ve seen all the zombie films so I’d be Carol (TWD) straightaway. I find The Road the most heartbreaking book so I wouldn’t want to leave my children.

Oh great, I'm in then! 😁 I'm a very good knitter, and can sew if I need to. Certainly good with map drawing! Can cook and food prep. Yes, I would have my uses I guess!

I don’t suppose I’d survive a massive asteroid hit, or would want to. With a bit of luck I’d be instantly vaporised anyway.

If civilization collapses people won't need to be psychopaths. You would have to do things that had never been a twinkle in your head.

We wouldn't all going to pull together as one big singing group. The survival instinct is very strong and most of us have never had it activated yet. Desperation makes us be someone we've never been before.

Including you.

Yes. Absolutely.

I could use up my vast stash of knitting yarn by making woolly hats for everybody while we sit round the campfire waiting for the rat and turnip stew to cook.

No way. When my meds run out, I would be stuffed anyway.
People talk about prepping on here for some huge event. I have my prep kit sorted. A load of pills and a bottle of vodka.

I'd like to stay alive for as long as I could to make sure DC were as OK as they could be under the circumstances.

It’s true that being a women is something you have to factor in

god no. I barely want to survive the weekend.

And for what's it's worth to that poster I probably would have spent the blitz feeling sorry for myself. People in the blitz were just people, I'm sure most of them weren't in a blissful state of wartime spirit.

And I hope I’m stood right next to you.

Yes it’s easy to think it was a time of coming together and bravery but likelihood is for a lot of people it was terrifying, depressing and hard.

My reasons for laying down and taking the hit are less selfish and more a feeling that I have little to offer and would be more of a hindrance

Absolutely. And a lot of the contemporary resources we have were being created deliberately as propaganda.

Those of us with relatives who never made it out of psychiatric care post war know that they weren't all coming back from PoW camps singing and telling stories.

I would not want to live or to leave my children living in any sort of lawless society.

Rape and sexual offences are already practically consequence free for perpetrators, and that's with police forces, the cos and courts up and running.

I would want us all to die and quickly.

Nothing blissful about it, simply having a community work ethic that wins out over a kneejerk death wish.