Would you even want to survive a nuclear fallout?

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Seeing loads of threads about bunkers and prepping etc etc

I have a friend who talks about this a lot and is deeply unimpressed with my stance of "honestly, I wouldn't want to survive the apocalypse anyway".

I like good cheese, and chocolate, I like wasting time on the Internet and going on holiday. I like hot showers.
The apocalypse sounds like it sucks. I haven't the first clue how to season a rat roasted on a stick, and cockroaches scare me. Camping is shit.

AIBU to think that in the case of a nuclear fallout, just instantly being wiped out sounds like the far nicer option?

I think Putin has some sort of dead man switch so if he doesnt check in daily something goes boom so probably best off not bumping him off til we're sure.

@ChateauxNeufDePoop has it totally right. Life looks worse than death.

I would either want to survive or be vaporised.
If I survived and it was too dreadful, I could go on my own terms

Everyone left would likely turn on each other rather than pull together

For me, that's a scary option

@ParisLondonTokyoSlough

I would if my children were alive because I absolutely would want to stay alive so that I could do my best to show them that there is good in life and living with people - even in barren land we still have relationships and love.

But if my children were (God forbid) gone, then not really. But I probably would still keep going out of human instinct to survive

Yes, I'd want to be here if my kids were. I can't stand the thought of not being here if they needed me. But not otherwise.

No way. The world will be a dusty bleak desert in darkness, nothing would grow. Rather be vaporised in the blast

My instant reaction is no, but humans have a strong survival instinct. You only to have look back to history and round the world to see humans who have struggled on in the most horrific conditions.

Another vote for going up with blast. The nuclear winter sounds fucking dreadful.

We live near Devonport so we wouldn’t even have time to worry about. I prefer it that way.

@ChateauxNeufDePoop

I watched Threads at school. If that's remotely accurate (which I believe it is, particularly re nuclear winter) then surviving a serious nuclear incident is definitely not something I'd want to go through.

I was about to say the same. anyone in our generation who watched threads knows this!

No i wouldn't want to survive. I wouldn't want my kids to either.

Anyone who watched the series about Chernobyl will have seen what radiation sickness does to you (melts you from the inside basically over a few weeks) would not want to risk surviving and going through that.

The land would dead or sick. The people would dead or sick. The animals would dead or sick. Toxic water. No law. No medicine. No heat. No light. No tech. Just a lot of pain and misery.

Nopes.

I’m glad you posted this and I completely agree. We were talking about it last night. I’m a big fan of dystopian fiction and I have no desire to survive anything like this. I’m vegetarian, take a couple of medications and DH hates camping.

In end of the world films the people who have it right take to bed with their loved ones and go peacefully by their own hand.

Not that I should, but if I wanted to where do I find Threads?

No would not. I grew up during the Cold War on the doorstep of what was Europe's biggest power station. We were assured at school that we would be one of the prime targets in a nuclear war. I took great comfort in the fact that it would be all over immediately. Watching Threads, Where the Wind Blows, and those awful 70s infomercials about what to do in the event of nuclear strike, assured me I would not want to survive one.

My greatest fear is not being with DS if it happened. I can face dying but I cant bear the thought of him being without his mum

I'd rather die instantly. I'd imagine that both food and medical supplies would be in very, very short supply. As a T1 diabetic, I'd be dead anyway with no insulin. I've been hospitalised with DKA before (diabetic ketoacidosis), and trust me - it's no joke. I'd rather die quickly (ideally, in my DH's arms), than have prolonged suffering of DKA and radioactive poisoning.

Then again, we have no children - I wonder if my urge to survive would be greater if I were pregnant or had children?

@AnneLovesGilbert

Not that I should, but if I wanted to where do I find Threads?

www.amazon.co.uk/Threads-Blu-ray-BBC-Mick-Jackson/dp/B07JZVP6KX?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

''I’m vegetarian, take a couple of medications and DH hates camping.''

Sorry but this made me chuckle.

@AnneLovesGilbert 's DH: ''That's that then. I'm not bloody camping!''.

I'm in London

Oops!

So likely not to survive anyway

m.youtube.com/watch?v=vgT4Y30DkaA

Terrifying that the headlines quoted here sound like this past weekend's

I had this conversation with my mum yesterday. She was worried about me going to London for work this week, and I said if there was a nuclear attack I’d rather be somewhere I’d be vaporised instantly. Her response - “but what would I do with your wedding dress?” (That’s currently at her house ready for my wedding later this year!)

Glad to know that was her first thought!

No, definitely not.

Man, I should NOT have read this thread.

No. We live somewhere in the UK that is fairly near what could be a target, so it would probably all be over in an instant round here.To be honest, I'd prefer it that way.