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?

@Thecazelets

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.

This.

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!

And start to re-populate with Rees-Mogg.

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

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!

And start to re-populate with Rees-Mogg.

🤣 grim!! Drawing straws for who has to breed with the delectable selection of Downing Street males.

Honestly no, so I'm not going to worry about nuclear war because I won't know about it

You can watch the “protect and survive “ public information films on YouTube.
You could watch “ survivors” available on Amazon prime, it’s about a virus so all the infrastructure is left but still grim.

[quote milveycrohn]@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.[/quote]
It wasn't so much a comment on the accuracy of the film. Just that it's the bleakest film I've ever watched and the thought of my kids outliving me in a post-apocalyptic world is unbearable

You probably wouldn't survive at all, in a very serious nuclear attack, You wont have any idea what kind of nuclear weapons killer Putin has in store, everything is a big secret in Russia as to what they have built for war. Big areas of land could be wiped out in a very short time.

Well surely it depends doesn't it? All out nuclear war? Of course not. The nuclear resulting winter would wipe out all remaining life anyway. Likewise, no point surviving in a house that's leaking radiation that will kill you in weeks/ months anyway. But there are so many variables.

Of course I'd want to survive the fallout if it wasn't all out war. How do you think Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt? Many, many survivors outside of the direct impact zone. Even many of those in the fallout zone.

Nope. There's a nuclear bunker where I work. I've been in it a few times. It'd be a bloody grim existence, not to mention having to deal with the knowledge of what was happening outside.

Although, TBH, reading "When The Wind Blows" by Raymond Briggs settled me on the issue long before I started working anywhere with a bunker (or, indeed, working anywhere at all).

But there are still good people in the world. It'll be alright. x

@SlashBeef at last a reason to be grateful that I cant get pregnant naturally!

I am definitely team vapourise. I think my husband could survive reasonably well but I don't think I add value in a post apocalyptic life.

I don't think an all out nuclear war is certain. It's terrifying but my mum tells me she felt this same sick fear during previous crises and HER mum felt it straight after the 2nd world war.

Seems like I am one of the few who would like to survive! We are farmers so fairly resourceful/ weathered people as it is. I was in the T.A. for many years so still have what has to be at this point an over exaggerated opinion of my survival skills and ability. Also I am pregnant and I wouldn't like my baby to never even see the world.

@mydogisthebest

No I definitely would not want to survive. I honestly can't believe anyone would.

If we had enough warning (don't suppose we would though) me and DH would go to London in the hope that that is where they would hit and we would, I assume, die instantly

Have to agree.

If it ever came to it, I'd go into the garden and hug my children tell them how much I love them and hope we're vapourised.

Makes me cry even thinking about it, but no way I'd want my kids living in some post nuclear hell.

I actively avoid any kind of post apocalyptic movies and fiction so living in the actual post apocalypse...no thanks.

Definitely not.

Said it back during the cold war and mean it even more now

I'd want to see how well I could do. I'd want to see if I could seek a new life on different shores. I'd be prepared to try to survive. There's always the option of taking your life into your own hands, like Thelma and Louise did!

No I wouldn’t I’ve told h two bottle of 100 proff drink vodka tasteless neck it slit arteries.

Heck no. You best believe I'm loading the family into the car and heading as close as possible to where it's going to hit. The thought of even attempting to survive after an apocalyptic nuke fills me with horror. Plus, I only have one pair of glasses.

@irishfarmer

Seems like I am one of the few who would like to survive! We are farmers so fairly resourceful/ weathered people as it is. I was in the T.A. for many years so still have what has to be at this point an over exaggerated opinion of my survival skills and ability. Also I am pregnant and I wouldn't like my baby to never even see the world.

I'm coming to yours then

@LividLaVidaLoca no I genuinely haven’t! Maybe it’s my age (early 30s) but I have never thought about this or read anything about it. Just the fallout of the nuclear attack in Japan in wwII

Only to look after my children.

Otherwise, no rats on sticks here. 😆

I wouldn’t want to, and I wouldn’t want my kids to either

I wouldn't mind being left entirely alone on a planet with sufficient resources, but that's not going to happen - you'd be left with a few other survivors in some hideous lawless anarchy - so I'd rather die with the majority.

@Whose you had me at camping is shit

Plenty of people survived absolutely fine in Japan after the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima. Id rather be outwith the fall out zone and I'm sure we'd be fine. It depends on the number of nuclear bombs fired doesn't it.

My DH would be one of those more likely to survive post-apocalyse assuming he wasn't ill or injured (he has plenty of useful and survival skills). I would be likely to be mostly a liability. Whether I would want to stay or go would depend on the condition of my DS. He relies on technology to communicate though, so it would be rough on him. I too hate camping (!), have little to no survival skills, and cannot see anything at all without my glasses, so were they gone I'd be picked off by predators or natural hazards pretty quick.