What would you do/think if you were the last person on earth

In My Humble Opinion
1

If everyone died tomorrow and there were no other people what would you do with yourself? Assume that electricity, food & water would be provided for as well as access to transportation like cars or planes if you can fly.

How would your values or activities change? I care alot about science but if everyone else died I’m sure I’d stop caring because there’d be no reason to study or practice it. So screw going to graduate school or becoming a scientist. I’d also never have concerns about money, women or family again, so that would change.

I assume if that happened to me I’d become a hermit, studying eastern texts on religion and using drugs to manipulate my mind to find different states of consciousness. That would pretty much be my motivation in life, to experience all the different kinds of emotions and consciousness the mind has to offer by using cognitive and pharmacological methods. Which is different than my current life where I care about things like science, women, family and careers. I’d be a hippy, taking various kinds of drugs and meditating all day. Then I’d probably kill myself in my 40s.

Also assume that no animals survive either. No dogs, cats, birds, or any other kinds of pets. Just insects, trees and you.

2

If electricity, food, and water are being provided for without anything human to provide the infrastructure, I’d wonder whether I was a research subject for pandimensional philosophical researchers resembling white mice, or else hallucinating everything. Either way I’d be trying to escape: that is, to get out of the simluaton or wake up.

3

Er…simulation. :smack:

4

Finally do all that reading that work is keeping me from!!

(I know this was an episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits…& realize that the fate of that guy would most likely be mine, as well…le sigh)

5

Hmm.
I probably would blow a lot of things up and do a lot of science experiments that I would not be able to do now (illegal or no access to materials).

I would leave notes/signs everywhere I went in case there was any other humans alive that I didn’t know about.

Actually, rereading the OP, I probably would die in short order. Lots of dead bodies + lots of insects feeding on dead bodies + no animals to eat growing number of insects = Insects taking over the world, destroying plant life, destroying me. :frowning: Then the earth may ‘reset’ itself, causing evolution to start all over again, and billions of years later, my twin would be in the same situation.

If I actually were able to survive, I don’t think I’d ever get bored. So much to learn and do that I wouldn’t be able to do now.

6

“Ahhhhhh shit. I’ll never get laid NOW. Oooh… a 2005 Mustang GT at the intersection!”

7

I suspect I’d get shit faced drunk and reeaaaalllllllllly into necrophilia for a day or two – until rigor mortis passes and the bodies bloat.
… what?

8

I used to daydream about this exact scenario when I was younger (yeah, I was a lonely kid)… only minus all the bugs.

I suppose with that twist, I’d stock up on OFF, citronella candles, and bug zappers.

The first thing I’d do is move into the local supermarket. After removing all of the corpses (maybe saving one for experimental cannibalism… what?! It’s my daydream…) to a safe distance, I’d freeze enough of everything except canned goods to last me a long, long time.

Eventually I’d either get very bored and lonely, or my meat and vegetables would spoil and I’d get tired of canned soups and ramen, and so I’d head out into the wide world to see if there are any other survivors. Surely if I survived, there must be others (my logic would deduce).

I’d eventually either settle down and become a farmer (if possible with the bugs), or else wander the world until I met one grisly fate or another (when exactly was my last tetanus shot…?).

9

I would also be the guy in the Twilight Zone episode. My glasses are even that thick.

10

I’ll be more specific and say “Time Enough at Last,” although I don’t know that I’d use it specifically for reading.

11

I’d travel as much as possible to as many man made wonders as I could reach on this continent and deface or destroy them to the best of my ability. Statue of Liberty, attach giant tassles to her nipples. Mt. Rushmore, giant groucho glasses. The Alamo, piss on it, just like Ozzy. I’m sure with time I could get pretty creative.

12

My first thought would be to kill myself. Second thought would be to find my family and bury them.

Then I would get blinding drunk on very expensive malt whiskey.

Once I’d tempered the grief (and hangover) some what I’d indulge myself with a rampage of wanton arson, destruction, more arson, looting, even more arson and some gratuitous turning on of taps in buildings.

Once I had calmed down I think I would relocate to a nice log cabin in the mountains with a lot of books, whiskey, porn, a trio of those female ‘love dolls’ you see on the internet and some nice lingere for my new wives.

I’d start talking to the love dolls and have a deep and meaningful relationship with them. When I wasn’t reading or getting drunk.

I’d like to be able to say that I’d spend my time in more worth while pursuits but I think I’d be lying.

13

I think it’s safe to say that you just crossed the line buddy.

14

I’d eat cheesecake. Constantly. Till I was sick of it. Why not?! :smiley:
::shrugs::

15

Try to eat all the frozen food I could, before it went bad and I’d be stuck with canned, dried, or made-from-scratch food for the rest of my life.

Catch up on my video game playing.

Cry a lot.

Work on writing my grand treatise about the flaws of civilization, and humanity in general, which I would plan on somehow preserving and leaving behind, so that any future civilization (terrestrial, or otherwise) that discovered it might perhaps gain some wisdom from the last son of Earth.

I would practice the above by screaming it at the top of my lungs from crude pulpits I would build at major landmarks, pretending that I was addressing the mass of humanity assembled at my feet.

Become increasingly paranoid when going through cities, thinking I see…something out of the corner of my eye.

The above would also make it a lot less appealing to spend the night in any big city, when the wind is howling and the moon is full.

Catch up on my reading. (Including what would probably be an unhealthy amount of Poe)

Posthumous executions, assuming any bodies are left.

Misc. defiling. Graves, places of worship, historical sites, etc.

Probably end up dressing in a full Nazi SS uniform, complete with gloves and greatcoat, at some point. Just because I could.

Maybe try to make a “road trip” to the nearest military base with nukes, and try to steal one/set one off. (This may or may not be part of a suicide attempt)

Hopefully die in some at least slightly cool and/or dignified way, and not from something stupid. (Like getting a splinter in my thumb on my third day alone, which gets infected, then gives me gangrene, and I die of blood loss when I desperately try to saw my dead arm off at the elbow.)

16

The first thing I’d do it get into the SDMB servers and ban the lot of you (then un-ban you a few days later with a warning).

I’d find a nice place to move into - perhaps an opera house or something. I’d collect up a nice entertainment system, all the DVD’s I could find, all the music CD’s I could find and a bunch of books.

I’d raid the music stores and build myself a nice recording studio and write some music to pass the time.

I think after a while I’d start collecting things that showed what used to be here. Things like coins, art, photos, history books.

I think for fun I’d break into a silo and nuke some place like Texas or Utah.

17

No animals? It’s almost not worth living if there are no animals. Are there creatures in the sea, at least?

I would take my pick of sailboats at the harbor, stock it full of goodies, and sail out to a small, deserted island for several months while all the bodies returned to the earth.

Then I would travel all the warm climes until I found myself a lovely little village where I could grow my own food, catch my own fish, find fresh water, etc.

I’d be bored, though, with no animals. The weather would be my only excitement.

18

Spend all my free time on books, DVD’s, and porn.

So basically, no major change in life style.

19

At first I would probably do the Omega Man thing, desparately searching for other people - any people. After that I would probably go bat shit insane.

20

Get as many corpses as possible into freezers. Both male and female ones.

Crash course on everything known to humanity about cloning.

Try my new knowledge out on cells off of the forzen corpses mentioned above.

If successful, maybe even try for a re-kindling of mankind. With enough DNA frozen up, and the ability to create clones from them (remember, I don’t have to worry about killing the original subjects!), maybe even doable.

At least it would keep me busy and marginally sane…