Would you even want to survive a nuclear fallout?

[Whose]

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 would rather go quick. Radiation sickness is bloody awful and as a smallish woman who cant fight it's useless to think I could prep and hunker down. It would be survival of the fittest and only the ruthless would be well fed.

I've got zero survival skills. I barely get through life as it is now so I don't think it's something I'd need to worry about!

Threads and When the Wind Blows scared me shitless as a kid so I'd definitely not want to have to suffer and die in a nuclear winter. The world would be fucking horrific after the blast and not somewhere I'd want to be. Fortunately we live less than 40 miles from a large UK naval base so I would imagine that we'd be pretty close to an epicentre anyway.

@HangOnToYourself

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 completely agree. I'm still WFH but our office has started to open up for less than half of its previous capacity. No one being pressured to go in. I was pretty much in tears with my team just this morning telling them I KNOW it's irrational and that I have no control over this, but the idea of going into the office whilst there's even a chance that maniac might press the button fills me with dread - because if it happens, I want to be holding my children at the end, and if it doesn't kill us instantly, I want to be there with them and ensure we are together in whatever comes next.

Fortunately my team are lovely and all said just wait until I'm ready and that they understand. I've never been a particularly anxious person, I've always been the sort who works well under pressure, comes up with a plan, is practical etc - yet between this and covid I seem to be a wreck! I don't understand why, but I am.

I'm sorry. I know this isnt funny but for some reason, "camping is shit" just made me laugh

"Why dont you want to survive for the nuclear winter?"

"Well, camping is shit so..."

YANBU

@smorgasbords

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!

I'd have probably quipped "bury me in it" (although I doubt they'd be anything to bury to be fair)

I've always said I'd want to go in the first blast, alongside anyone I love and care for. My life has been wonderful and I'm so grateful for it, but I don't want to extend it in those circumstances.

1970s informercial - hated the bastards

No. Covid and then that? No way.

@MrPoppysParka

Man, I should NOT have read this thread.

Yup!

We'd have 20 mins to get to UK nuclear Base if it was from Russia ...I'd hope they'd hit there🤞🤞🤞definitely no wish to survive

My first thought was no but then I’d be curious to know what it was like and of course reserve the right to polish myself off if it’s bad

I'm in the 3rd degree burns zone right now and thst sounds awful..I'd rather vapourise

I'm in London and pretty sure we are inside the zone that would be vapourised by a nuclear strike.

All the Tory bigwigs would be inside their bunker under Downing Street so can you imagine somehow surviving then having to band together with the like of Liz Truss to try and grow carrots in a post nuclear wasteland. No thanks!

No way!

No it sounds very draining. I don't know if I can be bothered with scavenging and rebuilding things.

No.

Have you seen threads?! Sod that!

@Youmadeyourbed

1970s informercial - hated the bastards

Creepiest intro and outro ever

No I don't want to survive. The only thing I intend to do, is that if I know anything about it during my last moments, I'm going to try and focus on something positive (no matter how I'm feeling), ie my family - if I have more time some lovely memories.

Without modern medicine my kid wouldn’t last long, she lives a full and active life now… without her to live for there is no point in me sticking about and slowly dying of radiation sickness

So another vote for team vaporise me and be done with it

@KeepYaHeadUp. The film 'the Road' is certainly very depressing, but it has some inconsistencies. If some humans survive, then so would some animals. In fact at the end of the film, there was a dog, but this implies there ought to be other animals which survived, so there would be a source of food. I do not think we were given information on how many (percentage) survived, but I guess it depends on how many compared to available resources.
The assumption is that the entire world would be contanimated, and everyone would die eventually.
However, I think the will to survive is pretty strong.

All the Tory bigwigs would be inside their bunker under Downing Street so can you imagine somehow surviving then having to band together with the like of Liz Truss to try and grow carrots in a post nuclear wasteland. No thanks!

Couldn't have put it better myself!

Also one of the many that have watched Threads and read The Road …

If that was life , I don’t think I’d do very well.
It would be strongest, fastest , meanest people surviving.

I can’t hunt , build or fight so it would be tough.

I feel like it's a pretty fraught time right now. And I no longer see babies in supermarkets and think 'How lovely!': I think 'Poor things'. But, then, I'm sure people felt like that at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.