Does Anybody Else ever think about what they’d do in an apocalypse?

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Zombies? I’m offing myself like the folks in the first season of TWD. Aliens? I’ll wait to see what other folks do first. Handmaids Tale? I’m setting as much as I can on fire and giving them a reason to take me out.

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  1. jaq_666 Avatar

    I’d love to think I could survive a zombie apocalypse and then I remember I’m asthmatic lmao so realistically I’m just gonna kms 😭

  2. La-loBonecrusher Avatar

    I am so so so out. No thanks. Goodbye!

  3. jambeatsjelly Avatar

    It’s been my life’s work to mentally prepare for this – without acting on it – in fear that they will put in the nuthouse or my HOA would fine me.

  4. DumpsterWitch739 Avatar

    Oh yeah I have detailed plans. I mean I’d probably just die because realistically most people would and I’m not actually a movie character 😂 – but I like to think I could deal with it reasonably well!

  5. Xevancia Avatar

    I’d straight up kill myself. Not gonna lie.

    I ain’t trying to live in all that mess.
    People these days LOVE to think that they would survive. lmao, chances are they wouldn’t cope, and they’re delusional if they think they would stand a chance in a pure apocalypse. It would take a certain kind of person to survive in situations like this. Most of us WOULD die or BE killed.

    Me and my partner have both said that if it ever happens, we’re offing ourselves. 🤣 It’s easier.

  6. sexycephalopod Avatar

    Yes. I’ve come to the conclusion that I will be dead.

  7. Capable-Pitch-8340 Avatar

    I fighting like I’m the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s ark, and the rain is pouring.

  8. FamousGoat8498 Avatar

    All the time. I’m a loner though so a world without millions of people sounds like actual heaven to me

  9. TemporaryThink9300 Avatar

    In a possible apocalypse I would probably be one of the many who die first.

    I’m not some Alice who jumps around with lots of weapons in Resident Evil, lol. I’m more like the little rabbit Snowball in The Secret Lives of Pets, who thinks I’m cool in my pajamas.

  10. TheMildOnes34 Avatar

    Lay down and die. I’m barely making it with my Netflix subscription and air conditioning. No part of me wants to exist in a world like that lol

  11. jeffro3339 Avatar

    I would try to survive. Everyone is saying they’d kill themselves. That’s easy to say, but harder to do. The survival instinct will kick in.

  12. Holler_Professor Avatar

    Probably just find my way back to appalachia and setting down in a holler somewhere with a creek.

    Not much but its honest work

  13. Djguy21 Avatar

    I’m pretty sure that with the exception of nuclear apocalypse I’ll have a good shot at survival for some time. I can build, repurpose, modify (MacGyver) stuff. I’ve eaten and lived off the land and I regularly camp in different seasons. Same for my 2 younger kids. My wife and oldest son, I don’t have much hope for them in a survival situation lol

  14. Kellaniax Avatar

    I have solar, an EV and two egg laying chickens. I’d be living it good.

  15. Caleb_wittymeme69 Avatar

    I may not be able to survive a recession let alone an apocalypse. Whenever things get sufficiently fucked up, I have a business class ticket to the afterlife ready to go.

  16. gravestonetrip Avatar

    I’m type 1 diabetic. I think about stockpiling insulin, but it’s going to expire eventually. Other than that, idk, but I’ll probably fk some shit up before I’m dead.

  17. Street_Breadfruit382 Avatar

    Omg! My people! It was a good run. 🫡

  18. HarpyPizzaParty Avatar

    I have two chronic illnesses that require medication or I die a slow death. I’m tapping out. 🤙🏻

  19. Smells4240 Avatar

    I live close enough to DC not to worry about surviving

  20. sfdsquid Avatar

    I’m selling off a lot of my things. I’m buying a gun. I have a gas mask. I bought a lot of instant coffee. I have a manual cigarette machine in case the grid goes down and I can’t use the electric one. i have several flashlights and lots of batteries. I am also scrubbing or deleting my social media.

  21. dmeezy92 Avatar

    It’s probably my favorite thing to think about. Only hypothetically though because idek if my will to live would be that strong lol

  22. dan_jeffers Avatar

    I can imagine myself in some broken future dodging zombies while scrounging for blood pressure medication.

  23. blood_bones_hearts Avatar

    My favorite apocalypse movies are the environmental ones where most people die quickly in a giant wave or something and I want to be one of those immediately dead people.

    I refuse to live in anything resembling a zombie world.

    As for the rest I have thoughts and a small collection of supplies and knowledge I’d rather have than regret not having but I’m under no illusion I’ll live long even with them. Haha!

    Honestly I think it’s going to be a much more prolonged slide into mayhem with supply chain interruptions and fresh water shortages and smaller climate disasters and none of us will be well prepared no matter what.

  24. spaacingout Avatar

    I think about the purge movie scenario a lot and how I’d probably end up being one of the final survivors, based on a number of factors that would give me an unfair advantage in any kind of anarchy scenario, be it a disaster or otherwise.

  25. One-Lengthiness-2949 Avatar

    Id want to die as a hero, like make the zombies chase me , to save others

  26. battlecryingwolf Avatar

    I like thinking about the fantasy version of myself, where my biology background somehow comes in handy to support the medical people or contributes to rebuilding society, and I survive by foraging/farming/canned goods and trading for resources. The details depend on what kind of apocalypse.

    Realistically I think I’d isolate. Can’t trust anyone amidst the chaos and not enough wilderness survival skills. But I’m in reasonable shape, only slightly asthmatic and could probably live off the resources I have for a while if I lay low. Though I’d lose my mind eventually, if I’m not killed first.

  27. Kielbasa_Nunchucka Avatar

    I have decent wilderness survival skills (Eagle Scout, military, lifelong outdoorsman) and am a carpwnter by trade, so I’d just go out into the woods far enough that I felt I would be reasonably safe and undisturbed.

    then I’d just try to live off the land for as long as I could. and I’d grow a shit ton of weed and make fruit wines.

  28. mtntrail Avatar

    Dying is the appropriate response.

  29. TecN9ne Avatar

    I often fantasize about it and welcome it. The world we live in now is a joke. Need to shake it up.

  30. Dry-Daikon4068 Avatar

    During the recent drone scare I stocked up on water and canned food and bout a battery operated radio and bucket toilet. 

  31. 1up_for_life Avatar

    Stockpile salt and spices.

    That shit is so desirable it was a huge motivator for global trade routes.

  32. Vaeon Avatar

    NGL the idea has occurred to me multiple times over the years, since as an 80s kid I was brought up with apocalypse movies like “The Day After”.

    I’m not really sure what I would do, but I have ideas.

  33. DexterCutie Avatar

    Yeah, I’d die

  34. snoozieboi Avatar

    I saw The Road and felt my soul was shaken for about 4 days, and it got me into a bit of survival games like the little gem The Long Dark in sandbox mode.

    Then found some postapocalypse subreddits, then had some fun watching the odd prepper videos and laughing at their paranoia, then covid and seeing egoism, then thinking oh, our cabin has infinite fish, then the fjords were opened for industrial fishing boats, then our social democratic utopia also sent out leaflets of “how to prepare for a crisis of any kind”, then Biden got elected, but then war broke out in fucking Europe, then Trump got elected again.

    It was fun until it got too real, even Don’t Look Up made me stressed out as it has become too realistic in some aspects.

    Just like every time I sleep in a tent for one night, I realize how amazing my shitty bed is. My food will probably spoil before a week is over if russians decide to test a hybrid attack on our electric infrastructure, I haven’t withdrawn cash for 5 years+

  35. BeachRx96 Avatar

    Absolutely. I’m taking my guns and taking over a CVS or Walgreens. Plenty of food, clothes, lounge chairs for sleeping, drugs to take and barter with. Our secondary plan is for my husband who is a medicinal chemist to make meth.

  36. Feisty-Tooth-7397 Avatar

    Yeah, and I refuse to fight to the death over canned goods just to find out it’s pork and beans.

  37. justsosillysorry Avatar

    I think about it all the time…

  38. mikutansan Avatar

    im running to the mountains.

  39. jennibell8 Avatar

    If it’s zombies or aliens my family is screwed. We all have allergies so we’d sneeze and get eaten

  40. BolaViola Avatar

    I would will myself

  41. Mediocre-Body9357 Avatar

    My plan: get fucked up! Enjoy the ride, kill myself before it gets to bad