Would you want to survive?

Paddy Cow

We all talk about our plans to survive the apocalypse but have you ever thought about if you'd really want to survive?

I'm not sure I would. Even if I had the means to kill and survive zombies, I'd still have to contend with the human survivors. Life would probably revert to the Dark Ages, where the strongest and meanest survived and I'm not sure I'd have the stomach to deal with that. I mean, we'd be living in a world where someone would kill you for your supplies and it would be hard to know who to trust. I think I could kill zombies but I don't think I have what it takes to become a killer of humans.

What if all your family and friends perished and you were just drifting along. That in itself would be depressing enough but the Irish weather is so bad, you'd constantly be cold and damp and I don't know how long I could last in those conditions.

If it was an outbreak where you just had to wait for the infected to die off, I think there would be some hope but what if it was like The Walking Dead and everyone was affected anyways? I hate to say it but I think I would just take an overdose and go peacefully, rather than wait for a zombie or human to get me.

How does everyone else feel?

cerastes

I'd become a red neck zombie killing machine, anyone fool enough to get bitten doing something stupid, none of this waiting around to see if they turn, off with their head!

Tzar Chasm

YES

Whitewinged

If i lost everyone i know, then i think i would find it hard to keep struggling. I dont know, sometimes when bad stuff happens, people find strength in themself that they didnt know they had.

Or for example like in The Walking Dead, when they lived at the prison and they had started farming, i think i would have liked it there. I think if i had times of feeling safe and hope, then i would be more motivated to survive but if it was just constant extreme fear and running, id probably give up easier.

cyberwolf77

I would likely find the biggest horde of zombies possible, draw them away from the civilized folks, and collect an honor guard worthy of an emperor to escort me to the Shining Fields.*











*Shining Fields= afterlife.

ScumLord

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Life would probably revert to the Dark Ages, where the strongest and meanest survived and I'm not sure I'd have the stomach to deal with that.

I don't think it would to be honest. It would certainly revert quite a bit, it's going to be very difficult for us to manufacture electronic equipment, however many electronics can survive for a long time having no moving parts.

When Rome collapsed the organisation that gave the empire organised public services and kept the people of Europe in contact with each other didn't regress throughout all of Europe. Many of the Roman cities kept going as city states and developed and advanced in their own rights. Basical what was lost was a common culture and the benefits of that common culture.

We're not going to simply forget everything we know now, some more advanced things will become impossible for us to do, but there is an awful lot of knowledge just floating around out there and if a community can maintain a library of that knowledge they should be able to stay fairly modern.

I also don't think it will become an every man for themselves scenario. Not in Ireland at least. The fact is the modern justice system protect criminals from the community enacting horrendous revenge on people for minor crimes. If a gang of thugs starts going around robbing people after the guards disappear and they'll probably be shot straight away by much large groups of close knit towns people.

Other than that people aren't going to be wandering around on their own for long. If you live in a small town, you'll instantly have a group to attach too, that group will more than likely be made up of a lot of armed food producers, most towns have tradesmen like plumbers and electricians to service the town, many small towns have highly paid IT workers that could afford to live in the country and work in the city.

Big towns/cities are fecked, but small towns can turn into their own mini city states almost instantly.

KenjiOdo

I would give surviving my best shot. I'd see it as an adventure, every day different from the last.. beats bland 21st century rat race living ?

ScumLord

Being hungry and cold get's old really quickly. There's been few times where I've had hardship, and the closest I've ever got there was always the knowledge that the modern world was waiting for me, that if anything went wrong people would appear and make everything better. We don't really know what it's like to live without that security in the background of everything we do.

sabhail

ScumLord wrote: »

Being hungry and cold get's old really quickly. There's been few times where I've had hardship, and the closest I've ever got there was always the knowledge that the modern world was waiting for me, that if anything went wrong people would appear and make everything better. We don't really know what it's like to live without that security in the background of everything we do.

Completely agree. Knowing everything in society was gone not to mention people - hard to over estimate effect of this. Your life, whether career, family, sports, politics, friends were important , that's all gone. Now its surviving, if your lucky in a community but in terms of your life choices or options, you've gone back hundreds of years. You'd need to be strong mentally to survive plus have someone to protect I think, to give some purpose to you.

RiderOnTheStorm

There are two sides to every story, and I certainly would not choose to live in Post Apoc Z world. However, if I did find myself in that situ, then I would def want to survive, and would try my best every day to make sure I had best chance of survival. Because I prepare for the Post Apoc World, it does not mean I hope for it to come. It may become too hard after a while. Like ScumLord says, we really dont know how we will do until all the blankets of modernity are removed. But I will try to survive for a 'while' .... please join me if you are around :-)

ScumLord

I'm sure everyone would want to survive. As a living creature it's hard not to do that, but it probably would be basic survival, at least at first.

Depending on how much of the global population is left and how persistent the zombie problem would be. (Is even a dead zombie toxic? If a load of zombies died in a field would that field be unusable for a few years? Would the water table be polluted?) The people that are left could have a great life. If some modern, technically advanced group can hold out they could reinstate the modern world pretty quickly, we'd have resources in abundance, there wouldn't even be any need to fight over most of it.

The only way I could see it turning to violence is if some sort of fundamentalist group hangs on and think the end of the world just happened, god must have missed these survivors, we should kill them just to be sure.

Micky Dolenz

I think I would fare well in a post apoc world. I've a right evil streak in me.

RiderOnTheStorm

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I think I would fare well in a post apoc world. I've a right evil streak in me.

evil ??? Wow, I never got that vibe watching you in the Monkees !!

Nice to have you back MD ..... its been quiet here lately ....

Micky Dolenz

The rock/pop music is a trap.

Funny you should mention quiet, was only thinking that yesterday.

Kromdar

the trick to surviving is making yourself invaluable. When others are killing for supplies, make what skills you have the most valuable thing you possess. at a guess, mechanical/construction and medical will be the most valuable skills.

course you could go all mad-maxian and hoard resources, and build an army around that.

ScumLord

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

..... its been quiet here lately ....

Maybe, a bit, too quiet? *Loads shotgun*

ToniTuddle

I'd definitely want to survive.

Even if all family members were gone or friends that I knew of/could get to, there would be loads of local people to join with. Small town so everyone knows everyone better chance of groups sticking together even if numbers go down drastically.

But you'd never really know if all family members or friends were gone as they may be spread out around Ireland or whatever county you are in so there would always be that hope that you could somehow find them. So for that reason you couldn't give up.

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I think I would fare well in a post apoc world. I've a right evil streak in me.

Yeah ya feicin do-not returning peoples belongings!

*shakes fist*

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