You're the last person alive: How do you spend your first 24 hours?

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Are the bodies still around in mint condition?

[Nathreim]

Put your own life at risk, for the life of Animals who have been in captivity their whole life?

Why?

Why not last human on earth remember what else am I gonna do? We all gotta go sometime. Besides I could tranq most of the carnivores and just drag them out with a fork lift or something all the equipment I would need would be at the zoo.

Tell you the truth the most dangerous animals would be the rhinos, hippos, and elephants not the predators I couldn't tranq em I would have to open the doors and hope they find their own way out.

[Celista]

Everyone died to a plague and people are here asking if they can have sex with their disease-ridden bodies. lol

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Why not last human on earth remember what else am I gonna do? We all gotta go sometime. Besides I could tranq most of the carnivores and just drag them out with a fork lift or something all the equipment I would need would be at the zoo.

Is this zoo like 1,000 miles away from where you plan on habitating? Do you really want breeding lions and tigers running around, hunting you for food?

[Powerogue]

I guess get to work researching cloning and give that a shot. Otherwise I'm just living as an extinct species, and would probably work on cataloguing human knowledge in some way that would survive the evolution of some new species..

Good grief all these ideas assume I'm some sort of freaking genius. I'd play video games until the internet and power finally dies and cry myself to sleep every night until I eventually go out desperately searching for any remaining vestige of humanity and wind up dying trying.

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Why not last human on earth remember what else am I gonna do? We all gotta go sometime. Besides I could tranq most of the carnivores and just drag them out with a fork lift or something all the equipment I would need would be at the zoo.

Tell you the truth the most dangerous animals would be the rhinos, hippos, and elephants not the predators I couldn't tranq em I would have to open the doors and hope they find their own way out.

If it gives a sense of peace, sure, i just find it intruiging that you would make that your thought in the face of certain Doom.

Everyone died to a plague and people are here asking if they can have sex with their disease-ridden bodies. lol

Some people have low standards. Maybe too low.

[Pawstruck]

I find it interesting how many people would seriously consider suicide. Even if you don't believe in a higher purpose (I guess I'm the only theist left on the internet?) your sole reason for existence becomes... what... being with other people? That doesn't make much sense to me.

Even if I was a complete Nihilist, I could still enjoy being alone because the potential for learning is infinite. Aside from using the short time the internet stayed up to download all you could, there are, y'know, libraries.

And I would totally fill my house with mannequins. I think it would be hilarious and wildly entertaining. Also, dogs and cats. :3

[Melkorr]

They did a movie on this premise called "the Quiet Earth". Spoilers in case you want to watch it:


Initially he moves into a mansion, dresses up like he is super rich, and feasts on the best food and fine wine. Then after a while he gets bored and lonely. He starts dressing up mannequins, planting them around his mansion, and throws a party, pretending they are alive. Then I think he decides to kill himself but he finally finds another person alive.

That's from a TV serie called "Last Man on Earth" with Will Forte from SNL.
It's pretty funny but it doesn't explore being alone on earth that much.

[Deleted]

wtf?!
if the internet stops working after ~24h hours there is only ONE thing you should do!!

> gather as much porn as you could. < I mean who want to use magazines again in this day of age.

[Ihnasir]

Walking around masturbating

[Deleted]

And I would totally fill my house with mannequins.

Jesus fuck why would you do that?! Every time I wake up I see those creepy fucks propped up everywhere around the room? Even suicide is better than that.

[Saiona]

24 hour pornhub marathon until the Internet went away forever

[Crackleslap]

Probably take a spa.

[Nathreim]

Everyone died to a plague and people are here asking if they can have sex with their disease-ridden bodies. lol

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Is this zoo like 1,000 miles away from where you plan on habitating? Do you really want breeding lions and tigers running around, hunting you for food?

I have some experience with large dangerous game been hunting and fishing in Alaska half a dozen times seen a LOT of brown bears and I mean up close saw an old male at just 40 yards.

I hunt west Texas every year where black bears and mountain lions are common even walked into a lions den with one inside once (not my idea but you cant let a friend do shit like that alone).

They are not out to get you they are just animals most will turn tail and run.

Besides Its 45 miles to anywhere from where I live I would be more worried about feral dogs (a lot of pitt bulls in SA) than one of the lions or tigers making it all the way over here and thinking I would be better prey than a stupid cow.

[Celista]

I have some experience with large dangerous game been hunting and fishing in Alaska half a dozen times.

I hunt west Texas every year where bears and mountain lions are common even walked into a lions den with one inside once (not my idea but you cant let a friend do shit like that alone).

Plus Its 45 miles to anywhere from where I live I would be more worried about feral dogs (a lot of pitt bulls in SA) than one of the lions or tigers making it all the way over here.

Yeah I was born and raised in AK, I'd still be worried about lions and tigers lol. I agree about feral dogs being an issue, yet another reason why I wouldn't go around letting every animal I see go free.

I love animals but I have a survivalist streak.

[xezar]

I guess it depends. If this is truly a last person alive scenario, where no other person is out there alive or will ever exist, I'd probably commit suicide after a decent meal.

Assuming the question is just a general survival-esq one and that there are possibly other survivors out there, then yeah probably research as much survival info I can (shooting animals, not exactly "easy enough", but I could, but then skinning and disecting them is all stuff I have no clue how to do), ensure I have maps (or at least the info to get to some), probably raid military bases for MREs, etc. Then probably pick a secure place to hunker down, an easily defendable position that can't be breached. Ideally some crazy prepper's bunker with solar panels and whatnot and other rich spoils for survival.

[Deleted]

How did you plan to breed with someone you know doesn't exist? Or be motivated to search for something you know doesn't exist? The whole premise is that you are the last person alive, and as such it's reasonable to assume you would be aware of that in the scenario, or the whole question would be pretty pointless.

"Let's say all of humanity is wiped out in a non-cataclysmic way (a disease or something that doesn't immediately destroy any infrastructure). Let's also say that you are given 24 hours wherein everything functions normally - electricity, water, even internet. How do you spend your first 24 hours, and what would your long-term game plan be?"

Even if it's a tiny chance, the chance that you might be able to continue the species will give you the hope to continue - and a concrete goal to focus on to give meaning to an otherwise rather pointless continued existence

[Super Kami Dende]

Find an EB games. Get all the games I want, go to an Adult store, take all the sex Toys and DVDs. Find as many Fuel tankers as I can, park them up near a massive Mansion. Go get a Generator from somewhere. Live on generator power for how ever long it takes me to set up a Solar power Grid at my Mansion.

Play Vidya games and masturbate until I feel like ending myself.

[Lord Havik]

Finding a gun and some ammunition so I can blow my brains out. Preferably a shotgun and slugs so I'm certain to do it right.

[muto]

This thread isn't really fair because a woman can fertilize herself from a sperm bank ensuring she isn't the last human on earth. After she did that she would then need to figure out a way to keep the sperm storage frozen so her daughter, if she had one, could fertilize herself when she became of age. So forth, and so forth.

We as men would be fucked. Forever alone.

[Celista]

Even if it's a tiny chance, the chance that you might be able to continue the species will give you the hope to continue - and a concrete goal to focus on to give meaning to an otherwise rather pointless continued existence

What's the point of most of our existence anyways? There's no inherent point or meaning to our lives. There's especially no point to procreation, propelling our species forward. One day the universe will end and I'm fairly certain we'll have exterminated ourselves at that point.

I find the idea that creating more human life is inherently meaningful to be quite strange, but even more so when people claim that life is meaningless without that drive towards procreation.