Don’t sadistic, merciless foes like to give the* join me or die* speech?
Just saying, cause there are other options, ya know? This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it. This installation being G0sp3l.
Actually when I was contemplating suicide a while back (which I think is something everyone should do) I did some research on this and suicide by gun was by far the best and most effective method, especially if carried out intelligently, and optimally with a shotgun.
Plastic bag was both less effective, slower and more painful, so gun is superior in every way (unless you’re planning on changing your mind).
Get suicide pills and baggie. Just in case the bullet fails. That would be my luck.
Then go take some more of the SOB’s out.
I’d like to think that I could take the sedative, then put a grenade in my bosom, and as they were walking toward me, thinking, “Mmmmm. BBQ Bunny…”, pull the pin out of the grenade. And hope to take a few with me.
Hang on… one option is missing:
Sneak out of camp at night and surrender to the enemy, then try to negotiate for your own life by offering to sell out your compadres in some way.
Stop looking at me like that. I’m Swedish, this is how we fight.
In the hypo I chose to take the suicide pill. But before that, I’d be a total coward and try to find a hiding place - sandwiching yourself in a gap under some floorboards might not be Hollywood material, but it’s probably the best option for survival.
Since I die no matter what, then I choose to fight and kill as many of them as possible. Maybe, just maybe…if I am really lucky…one of the fuckers will choke to death on a bite of me.
The thing is, if ammo is limited, everyone who takes an early bullet is one less round I have to grow my escort with. If you want out of the fight ahead of time, the Doc has a pretty good way that doesn’t use up a critical supply.
And answered I’d save the last bullet for myself, but in all the excitement I’ll probably lose count and have to fall on my Bowie knife.
So, if the baddies are going to eat me, how far in advance do I need to eat the beef contaminated with mad cow disease so I can still fight yet still infect the baddies and take a few more with me after dinner?
If I’m in a “settlement” and my spouse and children aren’t there, and there’s a “leader” and we’re under “siege” from the “enemy” and we’re talking of “strategics” and “logistics” and there’s been fighting in the past and will continue to be fighting in the future and I’m well armed and expected to be participating in the fighting… then I’m in the motherfrelling army, son. Don’t care what the uniform looks like. Them’s, literally, fighting words.
But army or no, by “deserted”, I mean, slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan. Don’t need to coy, Roy. There’s always some way out. I’ve read all the books. Rich bastards don’t build settlements without a way to leave them. There’s a bolt hole somewhere, and I mean to find and use it.
I’d fight to the end.
I kill everyone even CLOSE to them before I’d go (or scar their faces with hundreds if not thousands of stitches, possibly removing entire body parts as they watched, screamed and begged).
I’d kill their damn children and maybe their nieces & nephews too, preferably in front of them.
Skype works too.
I’d aim for the high income high, high value targets first… the ones who’s tech and funding had made it all possible.
I’d also make damn sure there’d be so much carnage that no person, no group, no family, no fraternity, no gang, no party, no nationality, no religion and indeed no Race would EVER try to do that to someone like me EVER again.
I’d lay down a form of warfare hither to Unknown outside of the realm of GOD on them and theirs… without warning… without mercy… and without end…
Thank’s Skald…! That was Fun…! Good thing that’ll never ever happen, right!? 
I usually kill myself at the first sign of trouble. I’d be dead long before the last stand.
I voted for the first three options, and am now posting this, without reading any of the other posts.
I’d want to fight such a horrible foe, who has caused such terrible losses to me personally, to the utmost of my ability. I’m going to die horribly anyway, and would want to maximize my vengeance before I snuff it. To avoid any risk of capture and being cooked alive, though, I’d try to save one bullet for myself at the end.
The last-stand scenario reminds me of Masada and the Alamo. The cannibalism angle reminds me of the Reavers on Firefly (“If they take the ship, they’ll rape us to death, eat our flesh and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we’re very very lucky, they’ll do it in that order.”)
Death before dishonor.
What can I say? I alphabetize everything.
Fight until out of bullets, then use knives, teeth, fists, etc… You never know… that guy you bite while he’s bayonetting you may end up dying of an infection later on.
Plus, I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of thinking that I was so afraid of them that I’d rather kill myself before they did.
I’m reminded of the historian Josephus, who was part of a garrison that was besieged by a Roman force in the First Jewish-Roman War.
At a certain point, Josephus was trapped in a cave with a small group of survivors. Knowing that his fellows were of much too stern moral fiber to give themselves up, and that fighting to the death or collective suicide were the only options, Josephus suggested that they should all go out by way of suicide pact. They all stood in a circle, went eeny, meeny, miny, moe, and killed each other, one by one, until there were only two guys left. By complete coincidence, I swear, no tampering with the order people were counted off in at all, no siree, Josephus was one of the final two (aka playing “Roman roulette”, or the Josephus problem). He suggested to his buddy that they should surrender, which the buddy agreed to. Then he told the Romans: “I bet you need a turncoat local to negotiate with the guys holed up in Jerusalem, right? I’m really good at that.”
Or at least that’s how the story goes. The rest, punningly, is history.
Saving the last bullet is a fine theory.
However, it is entirely possible to be rendered unconscious or disabled beyond the ability to shoot yourself.
Get out while you can.
IOW: Suicide NOW
Why do you believe everyone should consider suicide?
…is there any chance I’d be able to get the chance to cannibalize one of the enemies, before I go? At least, like, a burger’s worth?
I mean, all things considered, turnabout is fair play. And when am I ever going to get another chance to try it?
I’d gather whatever weaponry and ammunition is left and hide it. I’d kill the leader with the one gun that I didn’t hide.
I’d then tell everyone that they are to do as I say or they will be next. I would have the physician inject everyone with nonlethal amount of sedatives to make them extremely chill/high for when our foes arrive.
When the enemies show up, we’ll welcome and wave them over to the fire where we’re roasting the former leader and anyone else who has opted for suicide. I would invite them to eat with us and attempt to join forces with them.
Worst case scenario, none of that works out and we’re all dead as f*** anyways, but luckily we are high.
I can play an Internet Tough Guy[sup]TM[/sup] as well as anyone. I’ll fight to the next to last bullet and then off myself. Since I’m headed to hell anyway, might as well bring a crowd.
I’d fight on, because I’m too much of a coward to kill myself. I don’t want to know exactly when and how it’s going to happen, so a chance bullet or stabbing (however predictable in the circumstances) would be easier than telling myself “Now!”.