Try to calculate how long it will be before the packs of dogs devoured me.
If everything manmade is gone, I’d be screwed. I live in the Netherlands, currently about 4 meters below sea level.
I don’t see myself actively committing suicide like some people are suggesting. I’d do my best to have a decent rest of my life.
But, I’m not an outdoorsman and the OP’s scenario gives me virtually nothing to work with. If this scenario happened right now in May, I suppose I’d have the best chance possible to stay alive while I learn the basics the hard way. I’d give myself a 50% chance of even making it past the first month and maybe a 10% chance of making it through the first winter.
Do I know somehow for a fact that I’m the only one? Or can I hope to find other survivors by wandering through the Earth?
In either case, it’s a ‘trapped in a desert island’ situation. Fashioning crude weapons with wood and stone, finding a safe, sheltered spot near fresh water and learning how to make fire through what I half remember from Survivor and that Tom Hanks movie would be the plan.
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Alternate between rejoicing in the quiet and solitude and worrying about those I love (human and animal. Will my critters still be with me? If I get to keep dogs, cats & horses I have more to worry about but also great travel solutions!)
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Do something about shelter/food/water/protection from the hordes of soon-to-be-feral dogs
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Do a lot of thinking about where the best place to live is, possibly head for the coast.
-Oohh…if **all **man made things are gone I may be screwed because there’s a giant dam & lake not too far away. Not sure enough of the terrain locally to know if I’d be swimming or not.
- Chop wood, haul water, carry on til I can’t anymore.
No computer, no boyfriend, no job, no house, no refrigerator or processed food? No thanks. I’d probably try to figure out if I was really the only person left on earth but I doubt I’d make it more than a couple weeks.
No books! uuugh
Dude, you’re the last person alive on Earth. You’re going to have to do it yourself.
Be glad there’s no other people?
My thought upon reading the thread title was to just get really, really fat. Just eat everything, but apparently that’s all gone as well as everything else I’d have fun with if nobody were watching. To hell with it, I’d just kill myself.
Go to Atlanta and retrieve the Coke formula.
My question, too.
I think I could go a good long time without human companionship if I had dogs with me. Then I would gather up all the lost and bewildered companion dogs into a big pack to protect me from all the other dogs and scary critters.
Food wouldn’t be a problem at first - all those other domestic animals - chickens, sheep, cows, would be easy pickings in the beginning, and horses for mobility, if I could catch them, though there might be some competition when the zoos released their residents. I live not too far from African Lion Safari. Could make for some interesting predators at the top of the food chain.
I’m thinking domesticated plants and animals are gone, so no dogs or anything. I’d be well and truly screwed. If I didn’t go insane from grief and despair, I could get water from a nearby stream but after that I don’t know. Not sure if I could make fire, even if I have seen it on Survivor. I could make a spear but I’m not sure what I’d do with it. I could eat grasshoppers and wild salad greens for awhile maybe.
I don’t see myself lasting very long.
I guess my post cataract surgery lens implants would be gone so I’d be blind with no lens.
Surely “everything man made” doesn’t include porn! I mean, there is some made by women.
Speaking of which, there all kinds of shit in the world made by women in 3rd world sweat shops.
Yeah, without my contacts I’d be pretty blind too, so I doubt I’d last long (or want to).
First, I’d do something embarrassing like masturbate in public or ride a pink Vespa - someone else is bound to show up!
I’d curse the fact that I only spent a year in Boy Scouts and never learned to make fire without matches or a magnifying glass.
I would try to figure out what was going on. (Which would be hard without my contacts.) I doubt if ever realize the full truth, because how could you ever believe that everyone but you vanished? But if I ever did “get” it, I’d kill myself, go crazy, or find religion. What’s the point if there is now one else?
Make sure I have a clean towel.
If I concluded I wasn’t deep into delusion, I might be motivated to try to survive awhile, since the only explanation is magic or some ultra-advanced intelligence did it on purpose, and they might come back and fix it.