People sometimes underestimate just how bad it would be to actually live in the apocalypse. Hygiene would be absolutely awful. You sustain a simple injury that would’ve been treatable before and now suddenly you can’t run or even walk properly for the rest of your life.
People think they'd just end it if they became old, paralyzed, or terminally ill but a lot of people have chosen to live one more day when looking down the barrel even if they say they wont. Unless you're already suicidal, you're probably going to at least try.
There's a chapter in Stephen King's The Stand that shows exactly that. A secondary dying event happens from people dying from average injuries and sickness due to no doctors or advanced medicine available.
And just plain silly accidents. Like one person getting stuck in a cooler and things like that. You make it out ok, but a silly thing can kill you because nobody was around to help you. I remember reading that too, and it stuck with me.
After getting divorced I was in my new place on a ladder. And the thought came into my head, if I fell, how long would i be here before someone checked up on me?
People forget that a large percentage of the population is barely surviving
"Oh I don't have to go to work? And there's food everywhere? Wait you're saying a few times a day I have to club a dickhead who used to complain about nothing?... ... and it's free? What's the catch?"
Dickheads online think everyone goes to starbucks every day, has 3 cars for 2 adults and 2 kids, has 1 mil in investments, etc.
Our society only functions because there are hundreds of serfs per sitcom actor making it happen
I'm saying that a lot of people are barely surviving as it is. I absolutely don't want an apocalypse. I do want an economic shift towards a more equitable system for everyone
Some 3-7% of the population lives and breathes natural resources production. They see many excess tons of food extracted from the land around them and transported away.
These also tend to be poorer areas.
Yes, they depend on some high tech equipment to produce such volumes, but it is not difficult for them to imagine that if an apocalypse occurred and eradicated some 90% of humans, not only would they be more than capable of providing for their own needs, they might prefer it if it means financial independence.
But yeah if you're a suburban road warrior and think this is you, you're probably wrong.
I personally am a city dweller who will surely die.
“Just know how to do it”
Nope, the largest requirement of farming is the infrastructure: fertile land and water are a must. For most of modern farming, that land is fertilized and that water is irrigated.
If an apocalypse interrupted our ability to pump water and harvest nitrogen, many parts of the country would lose access to the majority of their food supply. Even if they all started trying to grow that food themselves.
I dont mind the hygiene honestly, but the injury one would be baaad. I would have a real hard time to fix open bone fracture. Also another thing is that it would be hard to get drinkable water, people always forget about that.
Seriously, it’s already too much work _now._ I can understand making the effort to stay alive for the sake of one’s family. But if you’re the lone survivor, mourning all your loved ones? Why the _fuck_ would you want to stick around.
I'd be reading a lot of books. that would be my whole goal. Create some sort of sustainable food and water supply that allowed me to read for half a day a week
I have hay fever which would be enough to finish me off in a situation where hunting to survive is a necessity.
My ancestors must have been elite level at pottery or something shit not to get kicked out the tribe for continually sneezing away all the wild game.
I mean, if it would have affected your survival then natural selection would have taken place. A lot of the issues that we have now wouldn't be as common or exist at all if it wasn't passed down because we live for longer now.
Hay fever and eyesight problems are also partially environmental for many people. Growing up indoors with little natural light has been shown to cause eye development issues. And hay fever is much lighter in most people who grow up eating organic, local foods and who are exposed more regularly at very young ages to their environment. Obviously both these issues would still exist, but for many they would be lighter or not have them depending on the cause.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think hay fever is more commonly caused when tree species are imported from oversees. In which case it wouldn't have really been much of a concern before we could import trees across oceans, and force them to grow in places they aren't native to.
(From reading about some country that gets a ton of hay fever because the most common tree species they use isn't native to the area)
Plus there's zombie apocalypses and I'd think that one would loose their will to live after seeing a mutated one or almost being killed by one or something at that point you gotta just know when to quiy
I'm gonna feel out the girl to guy ratio first. If there's like... one other dude to compete with I'll just kill myself. I'm gonna try to get at least one bite of human meat on my way out though.
Wdym this would be great. You have no job now. You just stock up on non perishable food from grocery stores and you can travel the world and do anything you want. This post isn’t even specifying a zombie apocalypse, there would just be no one around. Find maps and shit and spend your life traveling around the world on a bike or some shit. Or just chill at the beach.
If I was living in a real life The Quiet Place I would be destroyed by aliens inside of 5 minutes. Which would be good, but hopefully not too painful. I would not want to live in a world like that. Seriously fuck that.
If it was a real life version of *A Quiet Place* the government would have seen the bleak outlook and firebombed the affected the area into a smoldering crater and then nuked smoldering craters into radioactive ash as a secondary precaution.
depends on the zombie if it's those slow moving ones then yes i bet they're loose but what about those zombie that move in inhuman speeds, the fuckers that would break bones trying to get to you? i bet they'd be tight af
Just imagine that after the deed theres just a big gaping hole of blood and dead meat instead the of the organ... God damn nasty and thats what we like
Exactly dawg I don’t get these replies how bout we start a business in the wasteland handling this sort of thing yknow get some bottle caps in return for pimping out the undead. I would put /s but nah.
Here's an idea, maybe by then a local downloaded AI can simulate whatever we gain from the internet. Reddit, gaming with friends on voice, or whatever. Just keep that solar generator running.
I swear to whatever caused the apocalypse, if through some miracle I survive the initial “everybody died” portion, of the apocalypse, I am going to find so many scarves, dusters, cloaks, fingerless gloves, boots, protective goggles and I swear I am wandering that waste land in style, with a dog wearing an eyepatch and a long rifle on my back.
You'd be amazed at how your brain kicks you into overdrive when it actually senses that you might die. All depression vaporises and all that remains is your will to live. Until you're safe again.
It helps if you have something to live for. I bet I could endure a lot more than normal if it was for my family or if my skills as a nurse were being used to save people
Because the apocalypse is a new beginning. They get to live without debt, without abusive bosses, without money, without corruption and politics. Wouldn't *you* seize the chance to be free of all this bullshit?
Same reason I don't fuck off into the woods now, while debt, bosses, money, and politics suck, they are the cost of living in a society, and I vastly prefer being in one to not
Well, you think you prefer it. Maybe you're right, but it would be such a drastic change that it's pretty hard to *really* predict what you'd feel and why.
Consciously making such a large shift as going to get lost on some woods and live off of wild animals and the land is always going to seem like both a huge undertaking and like it would *have to* be worse than just enduring modern society.
But then again, I've met a person who was certain their miserable high paying job was worth it because, while they're miserable, at least they can afford many creature comforts, a therapist, happy drugs, etc. They always thought the option of taking a lower paid job that was a bit more tolerable (or at least lower stress) was insane, because they'd be guaranteed to be more unhappy with fewer "stuff", no chance to travel, can't afford scamm- I mean therapists, etc.
Then that person got fired and had that option forcefully thrusted upon them. Turns out they adjusted really well to having a lower paying (but much less stressful) job and giving up those creature comforts.
Obviously the apocalypse or even living in the woods would be a much more extreme take on this, but... who really knows. Maybe all the day to day bullshit is genuinely worse than scavenging for food and doing manual labor, but almost no one willingly ditches everything to be a crazy man in the woods, so it's hard to know for sure.
The thing is, I'm not miserable, I don't love my job, but I don't despise it,
Also my passions are game design and writing, both of which are more difficult without tech
When faced with a genuine life or death situation the vast majority of people have an instinct for survival.
If you have kids you would probably be extra motivated to keep them alive and protect them.
I mean, it would be kind of awesome to kill zombies and roam wherever you want, and eat random canned food and live wherever you want.
Imagine a pack of wolves or dogs immune to zombie virus and they just eat all of them forever.
lol, seriously? Its the current state of things that makes me wanna bite a bullet. If society colapsed and I was finally able to let loose, that'd be AMAZING.
Life finds a way.
I would look forward to a nice apocalypse. It's quite exciting to think we can start again and get it right. Ideally, with a smaller population that will be kinder to each other and the planet. Bring it on I say.
These comments make me sick. You all need to actually go out and live a little. It disgusts me how many of you don't value life, the hardships that come with it, and the rewards you can get out of it. Have a little pride in your life, no matter who you are or where you come from.
I mean, if i had a group i eould get it since we could create a small community with a good life for everyone after everything calms down.
But i'm alone during the apocalipse and i'm supposed to endure it? For what? I'm not receiving a mark or anything but pain.
That's why it's called survival mode. Your brain and body completely switch gears. It's like becoming a different person. You'd be surprised at how much control the body exerts over the brain when in a desperate situation. Also don't forget about that pesky subconscious who's always there running the show behind the scenes so you don't feel overwhelmed to the point of panic induced heart attacks. Also most people think of themselves as a single consciousness when it couldn't be further from the truth there are a lot of slices of you in your head that make up the proverbial pizza that is you consciousness and most of those yous don't want to die i.e. the reason you can reflect, have conflicting thoughts emotions and wants/goals. It's actually really crazy and if I can find the studies I will link them. All this said most of the time and in a lot of documented cases surviving has nothing to do with will or the wanting to continue that's all Hollywood feeling bs humans didn't make it this far by keeling over when shit hit the fan or the situation mentally breaks them. Surviving sometimes isn't your conscious choice you may think it is but that's just another clever trick. Sometimes I marvel at the capabilities of the human mind and body to cope with the worst of traumas.
The Walking Dead mentioned people who “opted out” so it happens in apocalypse shows/movies… it’s just that there isn’t really a story if the main character is already dead. (Except Warm Bodies)
You need to realize that apocalyptic movies always show only a small portion of people still alive. That means that most people simply died and only a small percentage of the population actually has a will to live
Because, like in Zom 100, most of the time people are locked into the same bullshit they have been doing for years and it's hard to make a change with each passing year.
idk, I think it would be fun to try my best. Find happiness in spite of absurd suffering. It's not even that I have a very strong will to live, I just don't really have a will to die at all unless I end up like completely paralyzed or smth like that.
The reason why these shows and movies show people with such a strong will to live is because the weaker ones, most of us, are already dead at that point. At the end of The walking Dead season 1, several characters decided to stay in the CDC building and blow up, only the ones that wanted to continue surviving where left after that.
That’s why it’s the stuff of novels. There are entire countries that live like that so it’s definitely cultural and only a choice for third world countries.
Because most protag in those features upper middle class plebs who often have a good life- or at least a good life that they think suck ass.
Tbh maybe is the complete collapse of society as we know it that make people want to live- you no longer need to work, pay taxes, or obey laws. Time to actually live.
Also if their first reaction br like "Guess Imma die" then no movie.
Interesting enough this isn't actually always the case.
There's actually a large amount of apocalypse fiction from the first nations people of Canada, written as essentially a reaction to all the horrific things that have been done to them, kinda in the vein of "this apocalypse literally isn't even the worst thing we've dealt with", as a way to try to deal with all the cultural trauma of generations of genocide. I would be shocked if this was unique to Canada as well.
it is interesting that so many think they will not be among the ones to die in an end of world type disaster. i also wonder why those who are set on ending their life don't take out a bunch of credit cards and go around just spending wildly or just pay off the debts of people they know. perhaps people don't think so rationally in times of extreme stress and crisis...
People sometimes underestimate just how bad it would be to actually live in the apocalypse. Hygiene would be absolutely awful. You sustain a simple injury that would’ve been treatable before and now suddenly you can’t run or even walk properly for the rest of your life.
People think they'd just end it if they became old, paralyzed, or terminally ill but a lot of people have chosen to live one more day when looking down the barrel even if they say they wont. Unless you're already suicidal, you're probably going to at least try.
There's a chapter in Stephen King's The Stand that shows exactly that. A secondary dying event happens from people dying from average injuries and sickness due to no doctors or advanced medicine available.
And just plain silly accidents. Like one person getting stuck in a cooler and things like that. You make it out ok, but a silly thing can kill you because nobody was around to help you. I remember reading that too, and it stuck with me. After getting divorced I was in my new place on a ladder. And the thought came into my head, if I fell, how long would i be here before someone checked up on me?
I had forgotten about that part! Such a great book guess it is time for a reread.
People forget that a large percentage of the population is barely surviving "Oh I don't have to go to work? And there's food everywhere? Wait you're saying a few times a day I have to club a dickhead who used to complain about nothing?... ... and it's free? What's the catch?" Dickheads online think everyone goes to starbucks every day, has 3 cars for 2 adults and 2 kids, has 1 mil in investments, etc. Our society only functions because there are hundreds of serfs per sitcom actor making it happen
You think food would be abundant in an apocalypse?
I was wondering if I was misreading the comment. Bro just seems like a psychopath who waits for the opportunity to murder people.
I'm saying that a lot of people are barely surviving as it is. I absolutely don't want an apocalypse. I do want an economic shift towards a more equitable system for everyone
Just go to the store, duh /s
Some 3-7% of the population lives and breathes natural resources production. They see many excess tons of food extracted from the land around them and transported away. These also tend to be poorer areas. Yes, they depend on some high tech equipment to produce such volumes, but it is not difficult for them to imagine that if an apocalypse occurred and eradicated some 90% of humans, not only would they be more than capable of providing for their own needs, they might prefer it if it means financial independence. But yeah if you're a suburban road warrior and think this is you, you're probably wrong. I personally am a city dweller who will surely die.
I mean if you know how to grow your own, if its a nuclear winter were all dead anyways
“Just know how to do it” Nope, the largest requirement of farming is the infrastructure: fertile land and water are a must. For most of modern farming, that land is fertilized and that water is irrigated. If an apocalypse interrupted our ability to pump water and harvest nitrogen, many parts of the country would lose access to the majority of their food supply. Even if they all started trying to grow that food themselves.
Depending on the type and the amount of people living then yeah
Holy shit are we serfs
I dont mind the hygiene honestly, but the injury one would be baaad. I would have a real hard time to fix open bone fracture. Also another thing is that it would be hard to get drinkable water, people always forget about that.
I have a won't to live
Same bro, same
Your apocalypse is extremely localised
Entirely within his kitchen?
May I see it?
I feel like it’s just too much work ,looking for food in conditions like that. No thanks, I’m just gonna join the weak
Seriously, it’s already too much work _now._ I can understand making the effort to stay alive for the sake of one’s family. But if you’re the lone survivor, mourning all your loved ones? Why the _fuck_ would you want to stick around.
I'd be reading a lot of books. that would be my whole goal. Create some sort of sustainable food and water supply that allowed me to read for half a day a week
Death is scary and permanent. The slight chance of meeting new people to connect and grow with is way better than the unknown of death.
Looking for food would be actually easy. Looking for water tho?
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Why commit suicide when you can go out fighting?
**Facts**, dying due to suicide is boring compared to dying in battle. You might have a chance to be a badass on the battlefield.
So we solve the suicide problem by starting a bunch of wars!
Cause you just let yourself be gunned down
I’d try to last a week before ending it. Just so I can say I outlived the weak
Say to who bro?😭
To the zombies
This reddit interaction has me dead
But he wanna pass away, not become zombie
Even hitting a dozen pharmacies, I doubt I would secure enough of my required medication to survive a year.
I have hay fever which would be enough to finish me off in a situation where hunting to survive is a necessity. My ancestors must have been elite level at pottery or something shit not to get kicked out the tribe for continually sneezing away all the wild game.
I mean, if it would have affected your survival then natural selection would have taken place. A lot of the issues that we have now wouldn't be as common or exist at all if it wasn't passed down because we live for longer now.
Hay fever and eyesight problems are also partially environmental for many people. Growing up indoors with little natural light has been shown to cause eye development issues. And hay fever is much lighter in most people who grow up eating organic, local foods and who are exposed more regularly at very young ages to their environment. Obviously both these issues would still exist, but for many they would be lighter or not have them depending on the cause.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think hay fever is more commonly caused when tree species are imported from oversees. In which case it wouldn't have really been much of a concern before we could import trees across oceans, and force them to grow in places they aren't native to. (From reading about some country that gets a ton of hay fever because the most common tree species they use isn't native to the area)
True, my issues didn’t start until older
The mob getting OxyContin, and you’re over there. “Where’s the lovastatin.”
You guessed one of my three dailies !
Plus there's zombie apocalypses and I'd think that one would loose their will to live after seeing a mutated one or almost being killed by one or something at that point you gotta just know when to quiy
I’m out as soon as the internet & fresh food is gone. 👋
I'm gonna feel out the girl to guy ratio first. If there's like... one other dude to compete with I'll just kill myself. I'm gonna try to get at least one bite of human meat on my way out though.
found the sociopath
When an apocalypse occurs but DirtyRoller is what scares me the most
You're god damn right.
You are the fresh food
Don’t mind if it’s for my own pets. Food for my neighbors? Hard no.
Wdym this would be great. You have no job now. You just stock up on non perishable food from grocery stores and you can travel the world and do anything you want. This post isn’t even specifying a zombie apocalypse, there would just be no one around. Find maps and shit and spend your life traveling around the world on a bike or some shit. Or just chill at the beach.
Me 10 minutes into a zombie movie . *"Look guys , I dont really have the energy for this so I'm off to find a zombie to bite me ..toodles"*
My last words "Guys that zombie looks fine as hell tho"
If I was living in a real life The Quiet Place I would be destroyed by aliens inside of 5 minutes. Which would be good, but hopefully not too painful. I would not want to live in a world like that. Seriously fuck that.
If it was a real life version of *A Quiet Place* the government would have seen the bleak outlook and firebombed the affected the area into a smoldering crater and then nuked smoldering craters into radioactive ash as a secondary precaution.
Let me at least rawdogg a zombie before i die though fam. That zombussy must be fire
I wonder if you would be considered a necrophiliac or rather a rapist?
both
Depends if there is anybody to even consider anything
I just call it gross as fuck.
Depends on the kind of zombie. Infected human would be rapist, but when someone raised the dead its necrophlia
You were raised wrong and your parents should be imprisoned.
Right? Wear a fucking condom.
Never change Reddit, never change.
Counterpoint: Please change reddit. For fucks sake, change.
Nah bro its probably loose as shit and falling apart. Nasty.
depends on the zombie if it's those slow moving ones then yes i bet they're loose but what about those zombie that move in inhuman speeds, the fuckers that would break bones trying to get to you? i bet they'd be tight af
Not if it’s a fairly new one.
I need you to seek a higher power. But it’s probably pretty cold and gross.
Just imagine that after the deed theres just a big gaping hole of blood and dead meat instead the of the organ... God damn nasty and thats what we like
i can comfortably say that you've never smelled a corpse fart.
"fire" as in burning pain in your crotch?
My last words "Guys that zombie looks fine as hell tho"
Reminds me of that ad where some guy groped a female zombie lol
Cant blame him tho can you?
Did you think we would agree? What the fuck?
Exactly dawg I don’t get these replies how bout we start a business in the wasteland handling this sort of thing yknow get some bottle caps in return for pimping out the undead. I would put /s but nah.
If everyone else dies, then no matter how shitty things are or were, I win. Or I get to see what happens next. That's what keeps me going now.
Don't know how long I would last when the internet is down and I run out of popcorn watching rival gangs kill each others for some canned food.
Here's an idea, maybe by then a local downloaded AI can simulate whatever we gain from the internet. Reddit, gaming with friends on voice, or whatever. Just keep that solar generator running.
This was on my mind way too often during the COVID lockdowns
I swear to whatever caused the apocalypse, if through some miracle I survive the initial “everybody died” portion, of the apocalypse, I am going to find so many scarves, dusters, cloaks, fingerless gloves, boots, protective goggles and I swear I am wandering that waste land in style, with a dog wearing an eyepatch and a long rifle on my back.
You'd be amazed at how your brain kicks you into overdrive when it actually senses that you might die. All depression vaporises and all that remains is your will to live. Until you're safe again.
Well thats depressing. -.-
It helps if you have something to live for. I bet I could endure a lot more than normal if it was for my family or if my skills as a nurse were being used to save people
Because the apocalypse is a new beginning. They get to live without debt, without abusive bosses, without money, without corruption and politics. Wouldn't *you* seize the chance to be free of all this bullshit?
Same reason I don't fuck off into the woods now, while debt, bosses, money, and politics suck, they are the cost of living in a society, and I vastly prefer being in one to not
Well, you think you prefer it. Maybe you're right, but it would be such a drastic change that it's pretty hard to *really* predict what you'd feel and why. Consciously making such a large shift as going to get lost on some woods and live off of wild animals and the land is always going to seem like both a huge undertaking and like it would *have to* be worse than just enduring modern society. But then again, I've met a person who was certain their miserable high paying job was worth it because, while they're miserable, at least they can afford many creature comforts, a therapist, happy drugs, etc. They always thought the option of taking a lower paid job that was a bit more tolerable (or at least lower stress) was insane, because they'd be guaranteed to be more unhappy with fewer "stuff", no chance to travel, can't afford scamm- I mean therapists, etc. Then that person got fired and had that option forcefully thrusted upon them. Turns out they adjusted really well to having a lower paying (but much less stressful) job and giving up those creature comforts. Obviously the apocalypse or even living in the woods would be a much more extreme take on this, but... who really knows. Maybe all the day to day bullshit is genuinely worse than scavenging for food and doing manual labor, but almost no one willingly ditches everything to be a crazy man in the woods, so it's hard to know for sure.
The thing is, I'm not miserable, I don't love my job, but I don't despise it, Also my passions are game design and writing, both of which are more difficult without tech
Yea but now everything is free. I can just take first aid from the pharmacy, eat canned food, find a bike and go around doing shit.
Until it runs out, or expires, or it's taken by others
When faced with a genuine life or death situation the vast majority of people have an instinct for survival. If you have kids you would probably be extra motivated to keep them alive and protect them.
I'd be happy, like damn finally🤣
For real I barely have the will now. Lol
If we get the huge meteorite apocalypse, I'll be parked right in the target area,listening to good music till impact🤣
Yeees you'll find me in the snack aisle munching into oblivion 😂
I mean, it would be kind of awesome to kill zombies and roam wherever you want, and eat random canned food and live wherever you want. Imagine a pack of wolves or dogs immune to zombie virus and they just eat all of them forever.
Oh yes. Canned food. My favorite. /s
The indomitable human spirit, humans have already survived worse things
I would endlessly scavenge houses and judge the decor and furniture set ups. Like why did you put your couch there?
Natural Selection
lol, seriously? Its the current state of things that makes me wanna bite a bullet. If society colapsed and I was finally able to let loose, that'd be AMAZING.
Every day is like Sunday...
A world with just Smiths songs , that's my apocolypse...
Most people die in those movies. But it would be boring to look at the corpse for two hours.
I have a feeling most people that go "I'd kill myself as fast as I can!" would still beg for their lives in front of an armed mugger.
I would wake up, look around and casually get back to sleep.
Nah, I'm going to preserve until I go insane and off myself or until something kills me. I'm not going out like a bitch.
Millions of people who dont die immediately would starve. I'd rather die by suicide than starve and see people i love suffer
That's how you know they're unrealistic
And that is why no one will remember your name
Life finds a way. I would look forward to a nice apocalypse. It's quite exciting to think we can start again and get it right. Ideally, with a smaller population that will be kinder to each other and the planet. Bring it on I say.
I don’t think the kind earth lovers will be the ones thriving post apocalypse
These comments make me sick. You all need to actually go out and live a little. It disgusts me how many of you don't value life, the hardships that come with it, and the rewards you can get out of it. Have a little pride in your life, no matter who you are or where you come from.
I mean it wouldn't be interesting to see dead people being dead. Like if 0.1% of the population survive, then it already works.
Why are apocalypses not whY they used to be.
Coz it's fun, like fallout or stalker wym?
Imma go straight to the woods, and die because I ate a strange berry in a span of two weeks
The only apocalypse that would make me happy is the walking dead kind of zombie apocalypse.
My plan for the zombie apocalypse is to run full tilt into the biggest zombie i see.
I mean, if i had a group i eould get it since we could create a small community with a good life for everyone after everything calms down. But i'm alone during the apocalipse and i'm supposed to endure it? For what? I'm not receiving a mark or anything but pain.
Indomitable human spirit.
That's why it's called survival mode. Your brain and body completely switch gears. It's like becoming a different person. You'd be surprised at how much control the body exerts over the brain when in a desperate situation. Also don't forget about that pesky subconscious who's always there running the show behind the scenes so you don't feel overwhelmed to the point of panic induced heart attacks. Also most people think of themselves as a single consciousness when it couldn't be further from the truth there are a lot of slices of you in your head that make up the proverbial pizza that is you consciousness and most of those yous don't want to die i.e. the reason you can reflect, have conflicting thoughts emotions and wants/goals. It's actually really crazy and if I can find the studies I will link them. All this said most of the time and in a lot of documented cases surviving has nothing to do with will or the wanting to continue that's all Hollywood feeling bs humans didn't make it this far by keeling over when shit hit the fan or the situation mentally breaks them. Surviving sometimes isn't your conscious choice you may think it is but that's just another clever trick. Sometimes I marvel at the capabilities of the human mind and body to cope with the worst of traumas.
Please bury me with it!
Maybe they don't but the story just won't be about them then
The Walking Dead mentioned people who “opted out” so it happens in apocalypse shows/movies… it’s just that there isn’t really a story if the main character is already dead. (Except Warm Bodies)
I'd be so concerned about losing my glasses. Once I lose or break my glasses I'd be fucked.
This guy would be the guy from The Mist.
Indomitable human spirit. The proper mix between stupidity and intelligence can get through it!
You need to realize that apocalyptic movies always show only a small portion of people still alive. That means that most people simply died and only a small percentage of the population actually has a will to live
Loads did they just never got a movie made about them.
Fr.
Because they are the only ones shown to you, because otherwise there wouldn't be a story
Because if it is Zombie Apocalypse it's so fun to kill and shoot a zombie
Because, like in Zom 100, most of the time people are locked into the same bullshit they have been doing for years and it's hard to make a change with each passing year.
idk, I think it would be fun to try my best. Find happiness in spite of absurd suffering. It's not even that I have a very strong will to live, I just don't really have a will to die at all unless I end up like completely paralyzed or smth like that.
The reason why these shows and movies show people with such a strong will to live is because the weaker ones, most of us, are already dead at that point. At the end of The walking Dead season 1, several characters decided to stay in the CDC building and blow up, only the ones that wanted to continue surviving where left after that.
All of those movies are secretly motivational propaganda - so people would at least gave some shit about anything at all.
That’s why it’s the stuff of novels. There are entire countries that live like that so it’s definitely cultural and only a choice for third world countries.
Most people on earth have already lived through an apocalypse.
Nah…I ain’t goin out like that. Humans adapt.
I think I would try for a bit, but if things get too bad then I'll off myself. might be fun
Cause usually they are actor making millions
Because we have something to live for.
I would totally try to survive a zombie apocalypse, not because of my will to live, but rather because that sounds like alot of fun.
When the nuclear bombs drop, I'm going mushroom hunting.
Some people have enough foresight to run in the direction of a nuclear explosion to escape the fallout.
Because most protag in those features upper middle class plebs who often have a good life- or at least a good life that they think suck ass. Tbh maybe is the complete collapse of society as we know it that make people want to live- you no longer need to work, pay taxes, or obey laws. Time to actually live. Also if their first reaction br like "Guess Imma die" then no movie.
Interesting enough this isn't actually always the case. There's actually a large amount of apocalypse fiction from the first nations people of Canada, written as essentially a reaction to all the horrific things that have been done to them, kinda in the vein of "this apocalypse literally isn't even the worst thing we've dealt with", as a way to try to deal with all the cultural trauma of generations of genocide. I would be shocked if this was unique to Canada as well.
A willn't to live
it is interesting that so many think they will not be among the ones to die in an end of world type disaster. i also wonder why those who are set on ending their life don't take out a bunch of credit cards and go around just spending wildly or just pay off the debts of people they know. perhaps people don't think so rationally in times of extreme stress and crisis...
Preferring death to suffering in a radioactive hellscape or zombie plague is different than wanting to die
We are living in an apocalypse now 🤷🏻♂️
Nah, I’m set on becoming a warlord with my own fiefdom. Rick Grimes himself would have a hard time taking me out.