What if #63: What if you woke up and everyone was dead?

[Nouw]

Picture this scenario. You go to bed like you do every night. You wake up and find that everyone in the house has died in their sleep. By this stage your panicking and try to phone for emergency services. There's no answer! You walk outside and find cars stopped on the sides of the road and crashed into trees, many with their engines still running. The drivers of the cars are slumped over their steering wheels. Even your beloved pet(/s) is dead. What are you going to do next? Are you going to try and secure weapons? What about supplies? What about the Power, Water, and Gas? Would you travel or bunker down?

- We will say that the cause of death is unknown. But everyone did die at the same time.
- There could be other survivors out there but you don't know the specifics.
- There are no zombies, diseases, or even wild animals to worry about.
- If you intend on staying put, you may want to consider what industries are nearby. Some of them need to be running 24 hours a day, and without maintenance could spell disaster for the empty town.
- Both joke and serious answers are accepted. It's really up to you.

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Serious:Go all I Am Legend.
Sillylay games naked! I kid, I kid. I'd do everything I wanted to do, invent the Robot and play Halo with it.

Although part of the Silly is probably going to happen.

 

[Irving Delgado]

most of ur plans depend on haveing some solid knowledge and understanding of electrical and mechanical engineering.
if u planed on staying in anyplace that recieves its
A) electricity from a non-renewable source
B) water from a water filtration plant
then ur gona need to be able to maintain ur city`s filtration plant and power grid.
fuck that, best chance to survive is to head to a tropical climate where it rains often enough so that water becomes less of a problem and when it doesnt rain, water can be extracted from the plant life. Iàm not an outdoors-men but i do have some handyman skills and iam good with hydroponics. so a tiny source of water and some lush plant life is all i need to live out my miserable days wondering wtf happened.
before u mention anything about travel supplies, it shouldnt be a problem since a brick or a medium sized rock will be ur key to every store and gas station between u and ur survival!

note- I would cremate my loved ones and bury thier ashes before i left my home city
note- for those who commit suicide, you probably wouldnt do it unless ur already on the edge of suicide before the freak occurance but a couple years alone could definately change that. I wana live god damit!

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Serious: secure as much food and weapons as possible in an RV and travel
Silly: set up cars int obstacle courses and beat whatever time I previously set

 

[latenightapplepie]

I'd get supplies, bunker down in a cool house, try and work out what killed everyone, and look for survivors. If I gave up on finding survivors and the reason why everyone died before I went mad, I'd try and make some kind of time capsule to record as much important information as I could.

EDIT: Scratch that bunkering down part. To find survivors it makes to try and cover as much ground as possible. I could also keep busy that way and hopefully delay the outset of insanity.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Pile up a large supply of books and rejoice in finally having time to read them. Then unfortunately drop and step on my glasses by accident. Finish up saying "That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was all the time I needed...! It's not fair!"

Why yes, I have finally made my Twilight Zone reference, I picked the name and waited for just this occasion. WHoo ho!

 

[Anah'ya]

Rejoice.

Earth has finally been freed of its oppressors.

.. then realize that no one is around to maintain the nuclear reactors and oil refineries/stations/pumps and that there will be more suffering to be had because of it.

.. sigh, tuck my head down and wander about trying to get someplace where none of this will matter to me. On the way I'd have to refine my survival skills of course. Maybe pick up a bunch of dogs too. Get me my own pack. Snatch a horse or two for transport and make sure I empty every zoo and house of their animals on the way.

Good times.

Good times.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Enjoy life. All the sports cars, videogames ect I could ever want, lot's of dead bodies for food, might be interesting. If not, nothing a good ol' lead sandwich can't fix.

 

[Reaper195]

Try and live as normal as possible until I die from what ever causes death by being in a world filled with SIX BILLION DECOMPOSING BODIES!

 

[Chamale]

If everyone is seriously all dead, with no hope of finding survivors? Fuck 'em.

I gradually go crazy while playing Civilization 4 on a salvaged computer.

If there's a chance of finding survivors, I'm sure I'd be scouring the Earth looking for them. Of course, I'd be sure to cite repopulation as a motive, if you know what I mean.

I'd probably try to preserve my sanity by listening to music, so I'd try to get a good collection of CD's going. I figure this could stave off madness for a while, but not forever, of course.

 

[Decum]

Serious Answer: I think i would go to a game shop take all the games i've ever wanted to play, find someplace nearby and play them, i'd have to be close to town so i don't have to walk that much, and when i get bored of the games, i think i would go around take the dead people out their cars and drive around looking for survivors and break into other peoples houses and turn off everything so that it doesn't waste MY precious power.

Silly Answer: If rigamortis hasn't set into the bodies yet, then i'd look around town in one of the cars i'd find and take all the dead girls i think are good looking and then take them to a local super market/my awesome new house and put them in funny pose's and wait to see if any survivors stumble upon it.

 

[PTSpyder]

Well, the first problem, even with no signs what so ever of an illness being the cause of everyone's death would be getting rid of all the dead bodies. Sadly, you would need to deal with that in your close surroundings right away. If you didn't, their bodies would start to rot, and you would catch some kind of god awful sickness from it and end up dying yourself.

After that, you could take time to grieve the loss of your loved ones, and once you accepted the current state of things, the next big issue would be securing the basic staples - food, water, keeping up on your shelter, things like that. It would be easy to scavenge off of the decaying remains of society for a while, but only for a bit while those resources were still functioning, and the food was not rotten. After the infastructure of society failed, things would get really hard. At that point, you would either learn and adapt or starve and die.

 

[Emilin_Rose]

loot food, medical supplies, books, and video games to pass on to society if/when it is reborn.

 

[Stoic raptor]

Probably go live in the wilderness with my book on how to survive in the wilderness. Im serious, this book is real and useful.

 

[ScruffyTheJanitor]

Find someone else. Radio broadcast or otherwise. If there truely are no other suvivors, then inevitably I would go insane. I would just end it once I lost hope of anyone coming. In the meantime, I'd just raid stores for tinned products, get some generators to get power and keep myself busy.

 

[Om Nom Nom]

Mostly, I'd kludge together a rolling fortress. I'm talking taking a tank (I know where I could get one :3), using abandoned industrial equipment to clear out most of the hardware (turret in particular can be taken off), use thick sheet metal to build a home on top of it. I'd then loot electronics stores, and general stores for supplies (maybe going for a very large stockpile of useful drugs too). I'd also take plenty of petrol/diesel to have a healthy running distance (at least a few thousand km). I'd grab an absolute crap load of solar panels and install them on the top of my fortress to make sure I have power (perhaps inside a cage of some sort to protect against falling/thrown objects).

I'm reasonably certain I have the know-how to get all that done, if slowly.

A water purifier of some description would be pretty high on the 'to get' list too, I think.

I'd then go from city to city in my rolling fortress-home, playing video games, and generally enjoying myself (non-destructively; I don't want to destroy anything that might be useful). Listening for radio (or any other) signals.

If I find another survivor, and if they don't want to kill me for some reason or are insane, I'd invite them to come roll with me. Likely have sex with them at least once (obviously!).

And when I'm too old (or sick) to carry on... I'd use a few drugs and go out with dignity (once my supplies are exhausted, that is, I like living).

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Too much?

Edit: My rolling home would definitely have a giant version of the Red Cross logo painted on it. Or something else equally recognizable and visible that shows I'm not going to be a threat.

 

[Glass Joe]

I would go look for someone to "repopulate the species" with. Worst case scenario the last girl on earth is ugly. If I'm actually the last person on earth, then I'm probably god, or immortal or trapped in a parallel universe or something awesome. I would never kill myself, I'm just to badass.

 

[Lavi]

Check if internet works.
Check if TV works.
Check if radio works.
Check if satellite radio in car works.
If all obvious methods of locating people fail, take parents' car and check on people who would be most useful if everyone suddenly got up and turned into zombies. Obtain weapons. Obtain booze. Obtain medical and chemical supplies to begin testing bodies. Keep chemical supplies for bomb making. Leave city and head off looking for survivors.

No need to worry about food or fuel if you are travelling.

If friends were alive, I'd have a pilot and a dude who has prepared for this stuff. Pilot would be super useful. Dude would be fucking hilarious.

 

[vance32]

if there arent zombies its going to get really boring

 

[Low Key]

After the initial grieving for my family, I'd travel around town doing silly things with bodies, like create a corpse catapult or something.

That would probably get boring after a week or so, then I'd go find guns, food, and water, then go to hell...er, I mean Detroit. Why Detroit? Well, they have something called the Chevy Volt [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt], which gets about 230mpg (2000+ miles per tank of gas). Since no more gas will be made, it'd be smart to get a car that is primarily electrical and can be charged with solar powered generators. Same for all of the gadgets I had.

After that, I'd travel the country searching for life and doing dumb shit like breaking into the CIA and Area 51 for secrets, growing lots and lots of weed (I hope plants aren't affected), and playing porn on that big ass screen in Times Square. My base of operations would probably be Vegas since the Hoover Dam powers the town and it'll run for decades without humans intervention. Though, dust storms might be an issue.

Also, after a few months, I'd probably want to get a breathing apparatus because billions of peoples' bodies would be decomposing and it would smell nauseatingly awful.

 

[DarthFennec]

I'd spend some time looking for other survivors and wondering why I didn't die. When I got bored of that, I'd kill myself. Except if I found other survivors, then I'd interact socially with them, probably. If the other survivor was a hot chick, I'd have the most relevant pick up line ever ^_^