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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 60 points 8 months ago

Provided you knew what you were doing, indefinitely. Or until you died of old age or managed to contract a deadly disease/cancer/manage to injure yourself in a life threatening way that you can't treat yourself.

You might not be happy about it. But growing basic crops, storing away dried grains for the winter, hunting and dressing animals, making a fire to cook them, etc. should be well within the reach of anyone capable of reading this. Neanderthals could do it, so can you.

If you didn't know what you were doing, well, until you ran out of easily scavengable canned goods and/or died of botulism from eating one of them that wasn't as canned as you thought.

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

Yeah my plan (dream) has always been like this:

  • Use the internet while I have it (assuming people just all disappear suddenly) to download survival guides, solar panel repair/installation PDFs, maps, etc. Anything I can think of, I'll download
  • Gas only lasts so long. I can use chemicals that extend it, but it's definitely limited. I'd start with a gas powered truck and eventually move into electric vehicles. Batteries aren't forever either... But I'd try.
  • I'd move to a warm, temperate climate
  • I'd find a building that claims it is powered by solar panels most of the year. I'd use that as my home
  • I'd immediately begin trying to farm. I have a black thumb so this would take me some years to get done correctly. But I'd hopefully have some potatoes and grain growing by the end of a year
  • In the meantime, I might find things to occupy my time such as: finding videogames to play, raising chickens, fishing, collecting guns/ammo, collecting books to preserve, storing solar panels, backup equipment, etc.

My end goal would be to survive as long as I'm happy. I'm pretty introverted so that would last a while. I'd use animals to keep me company. I believe nature would take us over pretty quickly. It would be hard to maintain the house, solar, etc. forever. But if I could, I would.

My wife and I already do a lot of foraging in our area and we have several guides for edible food. We also do some canning and prepping for disasters.

I don't think a disaster would be a picnic. People are the problem. But if they disappeared suddenly, I think it would be pretty livable.

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[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Neanderthals (and humans for that matter) did indeed but they did it in groups, usually. Being alone really stacks the odds against you I think.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Well, you're going to have a much harder time taking down wooly mammoths, that's for sure.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

etc. should be well within the reach of anyone capable of reading this. Neanderthals could do it, so can you.

Oh you greatly overrate us internet people... 🧌

[-] wahming 57 points 8 months ago

Honestly, the biggest issue would be mental, trying to figure out if there was any reason to continue.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

Luckily I have a lot of experience with that debate.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 8 months ago

So the last survivor will be chronically depressed?

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago
[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 8 months ago

So... Congrats? I'm sorry?

Hope you're alright in some way 💖

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

In some ways I am, yes. Thank you.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 8 months ago

That's good. If you ever feel down, just remember: you're not alone. A lot of us are miserable sometimes.

Wait, that doesn't help at all...

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago
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[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I've always wanted a zombie movie that focused on the absurd boredom and how you might combat it. Like setting up Rube Goldberg killing machines

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[-] no_kill_i@lemmy.ca 28 points 8 months ago

19 years, 5 months, 21 days, 16 hours, and 23 minutes.

If the material world survived, living in a large city, I could probably scavenge for non-perishable foods for quite some time.

If it's a nuclear wasteland and I'm fending off mutants, I guess it depends on how many caps and nuka-cola I can find.

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[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Indefinitely. Just punch a tree; punch a sheep; punch a rock. Y’all so lazy these days.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

In complete isolation I think a lot of people (including me) would probably kill ourselves just after few months. We all need at least some social interaction to stay with healthy mind.

Aside from that, what the hell is even the point of living if you are the only person left?

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago

Aside from that, what the hell is even the point of living if you are the only person left?

Visiting museums naked? Cmon dog

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[-] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago
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[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 months ago

I'm assuming my dog would still be alive. So I'd just go on adventures with him.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

OMG, so many things would improve!

OK, healthcare is an issue. But if only humans disappeared? There's so much canned and freeze dried food; I could probably live off a single REI for a couple of years. Pharmacies to be raided, although I'd have to find an old-school reference for drugs, uses, and dosages. Hell, I'd spend a couple of years just outfitting a survivalist cabin near Yosemite or Frank Church Wilderness, and then a couple more backpacking out of the cabin, returning only for provisions.

I've lived without prior before; it's not that hard. I know there would be psychological challenges, but the physical ones really do compensate quite a bit.

[-] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

I suppose it really depends on why I'm the last person on earth. If it was nuclear fallout, I'd probably be dead pretty quick.

If we're under the assumption that everybody just poofed away and I'm the last person, absolutely a few months minimum. I'm within easy walking distance of some stores that have plethora of canned and preserved foods and liquids. I also know some places that already have full solar infrastructure already integrated.

All that being said, I'd probably off myself. I'm fairly non-social to begin with but I'd still be unhappy never being able to communicate with anyone ever again on top of major resource struggles in the future. Never find a partner, probably not even a domesticated pet as they'd all likely die within a week or so if I don't prioritize that. Sounds incredibly sad and lonely

[-] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 21 points 8 months ago

Probably depends on how everyone else disappeared

[-] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 months ago

Round about a day or two. I'd likely make an oopsie while letting the zoo animals out and get myself slaughtered.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

On the pro side, I live in southern California where I'm not going to have problems surviving the weather, even without electricity. I don't get bored easily, I like to read, and I'd probably entertain myself exploring. As others mentioned, food probably is not an issue, though I'd have to make sure I got the right combination of proteins and amino acids once meat wasn't available (or bring myself to hunt).

On the con side, I'm in my early 60s and, though I'm reasonably healthy, it's only going to be so long before I have some health condition that, if nothing else, makes it hard for me to go out and about for food.

[-] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

The only issue I'd have is mental health. Pets can only ease the need for social needs to a certain extent.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

I would miss my wife and kids horribly, but I'm one of those folks who always feels kind of alone, even when around other people, so I think I'd be okay.

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 17 points 8 months ago

Depends on what happened to the world, what resources I have, time of year, etc.

Assuming decent conditions and luck (nothing saving you from a severe infection gotten because wrong place wrong time), likely a fair few decades. I have a lot of survival knowledge, both theory and practical - and I refresh myself on a regular basis

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 8 months ago

About a week until I couldn't even stand up anymore due to Long COVID.

[-] loomi@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Probably until my first paper cut and infection after all the antibiotic starts to expire, it’s likely game over some time soon after.

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[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

After getting over the urge to kill my self…

Longer then one would expect

Most of us don’t have or are only kinda aware of real survival skills. - farming, hunting, fishing — okay there’s your food

Next thing is shelter and clothing- are the people just gone? Or is shit really messed up?

  • you can get good clothes and if housing is still standing you’ll be fine for a long time.

Holding out hope that there are any other survivors would help you go on, I believe as you’d want to find them.

So yes there are no numbers, but if you’re in a good place mentally. You can survive a long time

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 months ago

It's not even necessarily hunting/farming, it's being able to safely preserve it and survive a winter without starving or botulism.

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[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Probably not for long. I'm on immune suppression medication, if it's a post apocalypse then I'll die from infection and if I somehow survive that then my ulcerative colitis will do it for me when it flares up.

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[-] MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most of my problems are caused by other people being evil. I'd take being the last person on earth over that any day. I wouldn't live a super long time just because of lack of access to healthcare but I can't afford that today anyway.

[-] venoft@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Probably until I get sick or die of old age.

I'll probably do things like ransack my local library for book like the SAS handbook, plant identification, etc to bring with me, hijack a truck that's already ready to go, load all useful stuff including a small backup car/motorbike and head for the sub-tropics somewhere to a forest next to a city.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I could survive the rest of my life.

Probably a long time. I can learn how to run essential systems and live on non-perishables. Or hunt and farm.

I'm more likely to die of sheer fucking boredom, because there won't be anyone to make new games or movies or books or music and no reason to post comments on Lemmy so I'd just want to off myself.

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[-] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago

If I were the last person on earth, I'd probably kill myself pretty quickly

[-] SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

By playing beatbox music and making everyone stay away from me while I grew corn and ate it slowly in front of them while they watched me cautiously from a distance.

[-] SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago
[-] the_stat_man@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

I'm intrigued. What question did you answer?

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[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

About as long as content servers stayed up before I went crazy from boredom.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

After the internet fails, you'd quickly learn how valuable the public library is. They have lots of disc based games for Xbox and Playstation meaning no internet required. Lots of movies on DVD and Bluray, and still pretty good collections of music on CDs.

The smallest public library also probably has more books than you could read in your entire lifetime.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago
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[-] delicious_justice@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Something completely unforeseeable would off me within the first six months, is my guess. That tiny hangnail that breaks some skin which leads to an infection would be my demise. Assuming I didn’t have access to antiseptic, antibiotics, and the like.

[-] jmbreuer@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Well, I'd guess no one would keep you from going "shopping" at the nearest pharmacy.

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[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Until I finished eating the second to last person.

[-] UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

I think I would try everything to launch myself into space. I know it's most likely impossible, but fuck it imma die anyway

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