Last Human Being On Earth
 

It was just some idea that sparked up some major discussion in my English Literature class: What would it be like to be the last human being on Earth?

So we first had to make up some rules:
1) A virus made only to kill only humans wipes EVERYONE out EXCEPT YOU. This leaves the animals for you to play with if you are into that kinda thing.
2) To prevent the revolting stink of 6 billion bodies, the virus causes the bodies of the dead to deteriorate at an accelerated pace leaving no traces at all.

So with these in mind we started bs'ing about what it would be like to be the last human being on Earth. What would you do? Try to do? How would you live? Live on? Would you wear clothes? Try to find others? How long before you went mad and killed yourself? What at all. So just feel free if this sounds like a fun way spit ball some creative ideas or if you want to get into the mental and physical aspects go ahead. Leave no stone unturned. :thumbsup:

EDIT: it's been said, why not.
We now have approximately 6 million people left randomly over the earth.

What would I do? Probably mourn while I search for any other survivors. I would probably raid pantrys and houses for any and all supplies I could use to survive, and stop by a fancy dealership, and start taking cars for a nice ride. If during one of my 200+ mph cruises I started realizing thinking I was the last person on Earth with no chance of procreation I'd probably find a winding road to launch myself off the edge of the road.

Otherwise, I'd travel where I could on the continent I was on and see all the places I've wanted to see... But damn, with no one to share the experiences with. I'd hope my dog's survived, because at least they would keep me happy company. With no social norms... I could see myself quickly becoming "crazy", and would spend most of my time talking with my pups, and making "friends" with the wild animals.

It would be a sad lonely place indeed.

I'd go take a poop in the pope's house.

Not to be disrespectful or sacraligeous, but that's gotta be one opulent shitter.

I don't see a reason here to not do exactly what I am doing now - live and do what needs to be done until I die.

I'd mourn the loss of my loved ones and then move on. I'd probably try to figure out how to get to somewhere warm and sunny and spend the rest of my days there... chilling out and living as best as one can with no other human companionship.

Probably read a lot.

I would travel the world. I have never been dependant on social interaction, so the being alone aspect wouldn't really get to me. I'm sure that there would be a period of mourning/missing people but I think that would pass.
The main reason I want to travel now is to see the natural wonders and animals (I'm a zoology buff) so being able to do so without people getting in the way with border regulations would suit me fine.

As far as clothing goes, only if I absoluetly had to for survival (No tromping around the north pole in my birthday suit) I only wear clothes now to keep from freezing in the winter and getting arrested for indecent exposure.

I live on an island, so I'd probably have to learn to sail before I did anything else - then...I don't know, learn how to fish, hunt, grow vegetables, listen out on the radio for signs of anyone else etc.

I'd look for other survivors.

Assuming I was the only one left, I'd become more and more confident in the many-universes model of QM. Which means I'm going to have a really really long time to do things, and I'd start planning really really long term.

I wonder how long uplift would take? =)

These are great! Lots of people in the class said that they'd start having huge bonfires comprised of gas stations. One guy wanted to make a giant tent out on the high way and live there (no clue). No one in the class had a pessimistic view about it, until after every strange desire and fantasy was satisfied. That was the general atmosphere, no desiring suicide till after all fun was had.

But just remember to get yourself another pair of reading glasses if you need them ::queues in Twilight Zone music::.

And Yakk, is there any where in this forum to talk about mutliple histories? Things get interesting when there are other possible universes.

I'd have to travel up to Seattle to pick up one of those "realdolls." Living without any physical loving (even hookers) would be pretty lame.

Check out the Richard Matheson short story "I am Legend," or the Boris Sagal movie "The Omega Man," with Chuck Heston. Although it changes in tone rather quickly, the beginning has the last man on earth going about his life. At one point, the car he's driving runs out of gas. Rather than refuel it, he hops into an auto dealership and just takes a new one.

I would probably spend a lot of time masturbating, reading, and looking for food. I would definitly go grab a bunch of really nice cars. I wouldn't really bother with clothes, unless I had to do some prolonged work outside, such as farming. I would also have to raid a bunch of porn stores, cause I'd get really lonely, I'd definitly have to find one of those super-life-like sex dolls. Of course this would all happen after I went totally insane from grief from losing my girlfriend and family. Ooh, I'd also have to go see what is up with area 51, and other secret bases, then I'd go to the white house and steal the codes for all the nuclear silos and take pot shots at some of the desolate cities, you know, just a way to relieve some of the monotony and boredom. And then I would take some of the advanced jets out for test flights, after teaching myself to fly them in the simulators, and if that didn't kill me, I would spend the rest of my days smashing every window I can find, and looking through peoples houses for homemade porn (which is the best kind in my opinion), and getting extremely drunk from the free liquor I'd be grabbing, until I eventually died of liver failure, oh, and I'd probably take up smoking pot(again).

I would try to find some underground bunkers and try to store books and information devices as safe as possible against the time and elements so as to preserve the knowledge of our existence. Hopefully some day aliens would visit and know we were here once. I don't know why this seems important to me but it is the first thing I thought of for some reason.

Then I would try and salvage some generators for lights etc.. so I could at least watch movies, listen to music and stuff. Then just live as best I could with lots of pets.

First thing I would do is try to establish a stead y source of food. Then i think i would put all the effort i could possibly muster into learning to clone myself. I would look for DNA of women and try to clone them. DNA of really really hot women and smart women too i guess. I would try to get the species going again.

If that couldn't work i would abuse anything i could find or steal, then move to the wild and join a society of chimps. I would train them to become super chimps. I gotta have my companionship somehow.

Anyone here seen Night of the Comet? It's pretty much the same premise.

I've often pondered this myself. I guess I'd travel around the continent and see everything I could. I don't expect my life would last too long as eventually food everywhere would spoil and seeing as how I cannot hunt or forage I'd be a goner for sure. But it'd be a kick until then. A lonely one, for sure, but I'd live it up as best I could.

I absolutely remember that film... Typical 80s B film... would go straight to video today or get a much bigger budget and be the next Independance Day...

As for food... canned foods and dehyrated foods last for just about ever... given that you (or me as the case might be) is the only person there would be no end to the food available to you... You could live a few lifetimes on what is in the grovery stores of a mid-sized city...

This might actually be fun...

I'd head to where the Queen Mary, or whatever that big transoceanic cruise ship is docked, and figure out how to set her to sea, with me aboard... maybe a smaller boat, I'd put the boat on auto pilot, and have it go really slowly, and I'd just travel the seven seas... I figure the boat will have a library, so I could find a book on how to do anything that I needed to do... Docking the boat woudl be the toughest, but eh -- If I crash into the docks a few times, it's not like anyone would sue me for damages...

so -- where's this virus?

I would expect the power grid to fail within less than 100 hours (made up number!) after the humans went poof. This would make many things (gas stations etc) rather hard to use.

I don't know if I could learn enough to clone a human being. The raw amount of effort required would be enormous. It might be quicker than an uplift project.

Multiple universe theories typically are discussed in Philosophy every once in a while. The old thread on Quantum Immortality describes the basis for my post in this thread.

I would mourn my wife and daughter, friends and family. I'd probably spend the rest of my life farming, raising animals, and putting together a collection of all of man's greatest acheivments. I'd like to save a complete record of human history, so that any future scholars might have a better understanding of who we were and what went wrong. Assuming I was able to complete the daunting task of collecting a complete history of human acheivments (probably on some hard drive, that I put in a magnetically sheilded box and I basically put it in the deepest hole I can find), I'd like to do something that might begin to prepare the animals for a world without humans. It's a matter of trying to undo thousands of years of human waste and pollution by removing a lot of the CO2 from the air via the carbon capturing plant (http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/r...e/02-028.shtml). Reversing the CO2 we've done will make it easier for animals to live. I'd also like to plant as much as possible. I like the idea of trying to leave everything as we found it. It seems respectful somehow.

To keep my sanity, I'd keep posting on TFP.

I would read almost every book I could get my hands on. I would teach myself to sew because all the fabric in the world would be mine. Why not wear silk? In the process of doing this, I would watch every movie I have not seen yet. I would teach myself to hunt and gather and then walk all over North and South America to see what there was to see. Probably spend several years in the Gulf of Mexico and then find some means of conveyance to Europe. Imagine seeing the Louvre without all the other people. I'd spend several years wandering around Europe and teaching myself to read all the European languages I can't read now. Ditto for the rest of the world. By the time I would have finished seeing the world I will probably be old enough to live in a cave with some chickens, read my favorite books, and meditate on nature before I die in my sleep.

This is all assuming that I don't do something stupid and die in an accident while still tragically young.

Learn how to survive, discover The Terrible Secret of the United States, then The Terrible Secret of the Vatican, and then probably hunt for survivors because I probably wouldn't know they'd all be gone, if I did now, I'd probably make a bitchen compound and live ridiculously comfortably and go mad, but a functional kind of mad, where I watch movies, read books, and talk to manifestations of my mind for entertainment purposes, and just in general get ridiculously good at as much as I possibly can.

This made me laugh. I know people who do this right now.

Well, first of all, I would try to take advantage of as much technology as I can. Nothing would run for very long. I'd try to learn as much as I could about how to survive my new reality. I know that I'd eventually go mad, because of sheer psychology. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs would be foremost in my mind. First, I'd have to meet my Physiological needs. Air, water, food, sex. Since I already know how to handle the 4th one on my own, the learning curve here won't be so steep. Next, I'd have to take care of Safety. I currently live in Nebraska, which would have to change. I won't survive here without electricity and the human support system that keeps it working. Also, animal attacks could be an issue. With no other humans to scare them off, I could end up as supper for some lucky wildcat somewhere. The next need in Maslow's Hierarchy, Love, could only be met by taking care of pets. I'd actually be able to meet the next need out of order. Since I'd be the only human left, I'd be the best at everything! I'd be the biggest, strongest, smartest, sexiest guy in the world! Last, Self Actualization, would be kind of hard to meet. By then I'd probably be totally insane, so it wouldn't really matter. Maybe I could serve as an advisor to the next masters of Earth, the Duck-Billed Platypus!

I do it right now, even the end of the world won't change the fact. :thumbsup:

Wow good question. I'd probably do what alot of what everyone else said. After the shock and sadness of everyone I'd ever known passing away wore off I'd probably start worrying about security and food. I'm not sure I'f I'd travel the world maybe stay in my general area, find a nice home easy to farm etc. Utimately after doing all the fun stuff I've wanted to do the realization that I may never have contact with another person may drive me insane, suicide...probably not but I would be a shell of the person I am now..perhaps I would make it my lifes goal to roam as much as I can just to find another living person.

Spend my days and nights creating the world's largest vat of semen.

Make like Charleton Heston in The Omega Man and build a huge arsenal to protect myself against the mutant zombies that are sure to come after me when the sun goes down!!!

I'm a molecualr / cell biologist. Better damn well believe that I'm cloning a whole assload of people (including myself)! Or there's always the easier way... Go to a fertility clinic, take some sperm (and / or my own) and an egg, mix 'em up, incubate.

But assuming that this virus killed all the spare semen/eggs and it was impossible to clone myself, I'd just hang out with dogs a lot. I choose dogs because I feel they get along better with humans than other animals and are loyal and somewhat useful. But perhaps I'd pick up a horse or 2 along the way. I'd go somewhere where the weather's always nice, and just chill there with my dogs.

If you can make it you'd be my hero. I am not suicidal but the human race in my opinion has become overripe if we value human life so little (looking at it from an average American watching the news). Probably people here (in this forum.... for the most part... ::cough cough::) value life (decent human life) more than most. Something should unite the people here, why not fear of extermination?

The Earth will return to its former state rather quickly without the human race constantly polluting it. No more cars going minus yours . However... my gas station Bon Fires polluting the Earth still! But that is a drop in the ocean.

Lewis Black discussing the hole in the ozone layer: "We have men--we have rockets--we have Saran wrap.... FIX IT!!"

Well...Even if there was a virus...there is facilitys that are shut off...Probably some made by the goverement can make their own air... If they where air tight from the outside there would be no way for people inside to die of a catchin a virus... Well anyway... If everyone died and I was the only one left I would probably get a car and start driven... Though first I would have to take a boat to get off this island... :P

Fear of extermination is already here. Global environmental catastrophy, and Global thermonuclear war, are both possibilities that could wipe out the human race.

It would take a number of millenia. I've read a pretty well written story on this: Poul Anderson started a short story with the death of the last human on Earth, and ended it with the planet Earth being fried to a cinder by the sun.

It takes millions upon millions of years for the last obvious trace of mankind within the earth/moon system to disappear.

Unlike you, I value the planet Earth mainly so far as it provides as spring board for intelligence to spread over the universe. If every tree died, that would suck, but trees are just trees.

That is assuming that humans are the only intelligent life in the universe, which I extremely doubt. And we are still a long way from even making it to Mars, much less spreading throughout our own galaxy, and even doing that would be a piece of cake compared to spreading to other galaxies. I believe a close comparison of the difference in diffuculty would be roughly the same, as jumping two feet forward, compared to, say, jumping straight up and landing on a planet at the opposite end of our galaxy in about 2 hours.

And your also assuming that intellegence is somehow "special", I doubt that our so called "intelligence" will have any impact on the universe at large, nor would any other single species, the universe is just too big. We will eventually die out, just like all the other life forms on earth and, eventually, no one will ever have any idea that we ever existed. Because even if we do find or are found by other intelligent life, those species will die out eventually also and all memory of us shall be forgotten. Kinda depressing, isn't it?

Agreed. Which is why I value the terrestial life support system a whole hell of alot. But I don't mainly value it in and of itself, I value it because it is really really damn useful.

And yes, going between galaxies looks hard. Something to work on, in the medium term. =)

No, I am not. I am valueing intelligence. I am not assuming it is special or it has a moral superiority or anything else.

I just have chosen to value intelligence. Thought. Creativity. Hell, morals themselves are a byproduct. I think these are neat things and I want to see them spread, for reasons that don't matter.

I see you don't truely understand the concept of 'exponential growth'.

The visible universe is less than 20 billion light years in radius.

That is less than 4*10^26 meters.

If you start with a 1 m long stick, and have it double in length every month, the meter stick would stretch accross the entire universe in less than 8 years.

If you started with a 1 m cube, and had it double in volume every month, it would take 22 years to exceed the volume of the visible universe.

Now this is ridiculous, really. The speed of light gets in the way.

However, for a truely exponential process, the barrier slowing it down is, in the end, the speed of light. An exponential civilization is a relatavistic phenomina.

Exponentially growing phenomina are not all that common in physics. I can't think of one that operates even on a planitary scale, other than life.

That is the most likely result, I agree.

Unlike the whale, there is a small chance that we, in and of ourselves, can beat the odds.

It is a small chance. And quite possibly that which beats the odds won't be recognizably human, or even organic. But it is an interesting chance!

That is your belief.

"Where is Everybody?" Enrico Fermi. A question that nobody has provided a final answer to yet -- why is the universe so quiet?

Quantum Immortality

There isn't proof, but there is the possiblity that
A> you will never die
and
B> the human race will be the first interstellar civilization

If that doesn't make the universe seem more interesting...

Like I have said, these things aren't certain. They are even unlikely. But they are interesting, and possible. Some would even say reasonable, but I personally wouldn't go that far.

Intelligence can be viewed as a particularly 'interesting' form of information processing. And it is a form that, quite possibly, can be carried by many mediums, and spread exponentially. And, quite possibly, Earth could be the only local source of this self-replicating thingy.

In the end, of course, this is all just an arbitrary castle of arbitrary possibilities. One could live a satisfactory life, with the goal of protecting trees from devastation, or eating as many hot dogs as you could.

But, it is an interesting one.

Quantum Immortality is a great thing... if there were a way to traverse the different universes. So as for now... what difference would it make even if these other worlds were present? I am not bashing your belief in anyway since I believe that these alternate realities exist... how else would we even be here if not for a hell of a lot of possibilities and chances (possibly that of infinity) to make us have this conversation? And when I happen to stumble on the physics of crossing alternate realities while I putz around in college, here will be the first to know (I wish).

But this type of conversation is for another day, another thread.

So continue on describing your nightmares of being the last human being on earth!

Instead of everyone dying can we have something like The Stand? Almost all the people die? Like 99.9%? And can I pick the survivers? And take away Satan's minions killing everyone and nuking Las Vegs? Cause then it might be a happy end of the world.

:Ironicaly Cold's "End of the World" comes on when I open this thread:

That might be nice... but who doesn't just love Randy Flagg?? A few people might be nice.

Ok lets add 1/1000 of the original population. We now have approximately 6 million people left, left randomly over the earth.

...Let the Mayhem Begin...

If there are other people left then I would collect a lot of weapons and create a safe haven for all the women left to protect them from the roving bands of rapists that would inevitably form. I would also go out searching for those scum and do my best to wipe them off the face of the planet.

Mage, where were you for my Death Penalty Conceit Thread! NO ONE UNDERSTOOD THAT TO PROTECT OTHERS FROM MONSTERS, ONE MUST BE A MOSNTER!

Doesn't matter I said that the discussion was mainly up since only Ranger was on my side... and I know Ranger's secret identity! Yes Ranger... I know who you are... :meniacle laughter:

And I can honestly say that he isn't me. Right ranger?... Oh yeah I need to sign in as him! Duh...
Joking, Joking. Find other stuff and you can see that ranger and I are different people, we just happen to be students in the same school and he got me addicted to this place.

1/1000th? Start organizing. Attempt to reform civil society. Clump up for defence. Stockpile. Network with other clumps against predators. Find skilled farmers and spread the knowledge (luckly, 1 hours drive from here is an agricultural school). Defend books.

I would expect a breakdown of civil society caused by the stress. At the same time, with no massive physical catastophies, starvation won't be much of a problem.

travel around the world searching for others. if i cant find anyone else, then ill go mad one day and kill myself

There're 6 million left? I'll load up on guns, find some friends. It's fun to lose and to pretend.

Seriously, my plan would pretty much consist of loading up on self-defense materials, since I have a nagging feeling that people'd get extremely crazy being left behind when so many others died. After that, it'd be a matter of trying to a few others that I can grow to trust and living out my life in some sunny clime, stockpiling as much of human culture that I can.

Now, if I were truly the last person on Earth, and I knew it, I'd probably try to experience as much of the world as I could. Take in the art, the literature, the environment, the grandiose that was civilization, and, with that still fresh in my mind, go out in a blaze of glory. I'm not however, completely sold on the ending. I could just as well do what I would with people left, but I'm fairly certain that without true human contact for a few years, compiled with the knowledge that I can't find somebody else, I'd decide that I'd just like to go out with one last blast of human dementia and drive a car off an incredible cliff or something equally ridiculous to emphasize humanity and its shortcomings. Keep in mind that I would most likely be insane at this point.

First order of business would be to make use of the very limited power left before th egrids shut down and figure out if a nuclear reactor left alone would pose any sort of meltdown risk. If so, drive my Buick to Greenwich (rich city on the CT/NY border,) and trade up to a nice Ferrari or NSX (the dealers are right across the street from each other, and I'd like to indulge in a b it of materialism while I'm living through the apocalypse.) After that, I'd arm myself at whatever local gun store I could get to, stock up on some ammo, and ensure that no roaming wild animal could threaten me. Next stop, shut down the nearby nuclear reactor (I'd have a while to read up on it and figure out how to do it safely) and make sure I woudn't be getting a lethal dose of radiation if the lack of monitoring caused any problems.

The next big thing would be to find a big stock of signal flares, and send up three every half hour from a prominent location for several days in order to make contact with anyone who might have survived along wtih me.

Whether or not I found anyone, the next step would be to collect important books, a few computers, and other things as a sort of time capsule, and figure out where I could put them so that they'd be preserved for future explorers, whether terrestrial or not.

I'd have to satisfy my curiosity and hit a few places including the Pentagon, Area 51, Mt. Weather, and overseas, the Vatican's secret library, if I could find a way to get there.

Overall, the biggest goal would be to try to find other survivors and continue the species.I'd learn to live off the land as a nomad, traveling by horseback, foot, or bicycle as the world's gasoline supply wenty stale and could no longer be used. I'd just live life as well as I could.

I'd finally overcome my bashfulness and run up the down escalator.

And dance naked in Time Square.

i'd probably go to home depot, steal all their paint, and tie-dye the entire white house. and then go inside and chat with Bush. He's still alive. He's not human.

Ive already done it :)

I would cover my body in latex and set up my own nude photography...oh wait! Roomie, do I still have to do that down the street sometime? Almost did last Thursday...WEEEEEE!

I would definitely turn into Jane of the Jungle and go chill with the gorillas and try to start a new race. Could be better than the last one...

I would also try every sex toy...twice.
I would make my own fishing pole. And learn how to grow corn. I like corn.

I don't know here. I like the responses that a lot of people have here but if I'm going to be the last person alive, I'm not going to ruin that by creating some other being. Forget cloning and the fertility clinics and the like, i'm just going to hang out eat when i need to do the rest of the stuff as I need to. read a lot, watch a lot of movies, try things i've never tried before. probably make sure i could keep electricity running in at least one city for when i wanted/needed it.

i'd certainly get the hell out of the mid west. too bad FAO scwhartz is out of business, i could have spent weeks on end in there just fiddling with things. I'd try not to do anything too stupid to compromise my situation.

I know i'd not be working/growing things until the supermarkets' produce was no good. why work when you don't have to?

and yea, i'd have to find a real doll if only for curiosity's sake.

Train myself in all the sciences, especially engineering and all kinds of power generation. Once I'd amassed enough knowledge, I think I'd learn to fly a jet. If, that is, I could keep a military base / sim complex powered up long enough to use the simulators.
After that, I'd get one of those new SuperBoeings (the one with a gym :lol: and a bar :D inside) and fill it with food and seed stock. Then I'd find somewhere sunny and build a solar farm. Either that or find somewhere that runs of a geothermal power station and make that my base. Power problem: sorted. Just because civilisation has gone to toast doesn't mean that I'll tolerate cold showers.

Once finished I'd scavenge for a wide a variety of nonperishable foodstuffs as possible and repeat the operation on other continents. Once I've got a base on all the major landmasses (I'd say that'd take me fifteen years or so - the first one would be the hardest) I'd go exploring. I would, of course, explore and then seal off anything important like the Natural History Musuem, the Smithsonian, every national library and various other places, and then leave nuclear - decay - powered radio beacons (built with the experience that would have come from starting up and running a nuclear power plant at some point.

I'd have to do a certain amount of scavenging as these supply bases would be too far away from each other initally, but I suppose I'd set up caches of stuff here and there all over the place. Either that or pillage. Arming oneself would be important - so a sniper rifle and some subweapons would be essential. I wouldn't plan on letting any hungry animal get close to me unless on my terms, plus I'd be reduced to a meat and veg diet. No refined stuff unless I find a Cadbury's factory. (Mmm)

After that, (and assuming by this time that I'm middle-aged - these things take time), I'd either just travel and take lots of cameras along with me and record everything in pictures or find and drive every fast car that I've ever wanted to drive. (I'd have clean petrol stocks with me in a bus somewhere. I'm assuming that I can get a bus onto a plane somehow).

Something rather morbid, though. What happens when it's your time to die? Would you dig your own grave or just keel over somewhere and rot? (Assuming of course that you don't screw something up and somehow blow yourself to bits in the preceeding years).

Well before that, though, I'd have started keeping cats with me. Hundreds of the things. I'd probably go insane long before I got all this done though.

As a man, I would have to start into the second paragraph, but...
If I was a woman: Find a sperm bank. I know, I know.. sick. But hey, you could be the progenitor of all of humanity, a new Eve!

Power will indeed start to fail, but who cares? First thing to do is steal a car (SUV) and fill the monster tank with gas. Drive to Lowes or some large hardware store and get a few very large plastic tanks (think boat gas tanks) and stick them in the back of your truck and fill. Be sure to get a manual pump and a good bit of hose.

Next swing by a gun store and stock up, then a grocery store and get some canned goods (eat the fresh stuff now, its the last you will get for a while). Grab some tools, and some spare parts for your SUV (only things you know how to replace, if it is serious just get another car).

Finally you need to search for a place to settle down. Forget power plants, find a place that makes those large solar cells that go on top of houses. If you were lucky you might be able to raid a real estate office and find a home that already has them installed. After that, practically home free!

Pun intended?

That is the funniest thing I've read today. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'd head down to the airport and fuel up a plane and make short daylight hops to Cali. At each stop I made I'd find a car and drive around and see whatever there is to see. Once I made it to Cali I'd find a vehicle and a large trailer to load up with food and fuel and surfboards and travel down the coast down to South America, stopping to surf whenever I felt like it.

Then I'd think up a way to get out of the America's safely. I'd probably travel back up to Canada and then to Alaska and make my way over to Russia. As I travelled I'd go to various military bases and shoot guns and do other destructive stuff. I'd probably find a motor home and fill it up with guns and shit for the long ride up to Alaska. Then I'd peruse my way to China and then across Asia to Europe.

I'd also try to find one of those sex doll things. It's gotta be better than Rosy Palms, even though she's never done me wrong. I'd probably spend the rest of my life doing stupid stuff and fiddling with shit until I get bored and move on. I'd think I'd hold on to the hope that I'd find someone eventually, and travel around looking for survivors. It would be a relaxed objective, just something to keep me moving.

Ever watch 28 Days Later? I'd imagine that the way the main character finds the world when he wakes up would be pretty accurate. Lots of disarray, depending on the way people died.

I'd go look for a twinkie factory, a la Family Guy.

I'd try to read a book, but my glasses would fall to the ground and shatter. But oh well, at least there's the big print. Then my eyeballs would fall out... but I could still read braille books (well, not really). And then my hands would fall off, and finally, I would try to shoot myself in the head, but the gun would jam...
(a la Futurama)

Either that, or I'd pick up a shotgun and fend off the mutant zombies leftover from the virus.

^^^ I can't believe it. I saw this thread at the top and had the idea to post exactly what you did. Great minds, eh?

I would go read my books...probably go satisfy my curiousities at places like langley, library of congress and NSA...then I would learn to fly, probably killing myself in the process and die happy.

id look for others like me, and go on a huge looting spree, drive around the world and such. Gas would be an issue tho. Same with oceans

Would it be ok to party?

I'd farking cry. A lot.

Then I'd go insane for a while... Since there'd be no computers anymore I wouldn't be able to dellude myself in the online gaming world so I'd smash things, and go crazy again.

After I went inanse I'd meditate and float up to heaven to chill with my friends. And drink bai jiu (Chinese lvodka like drink)

Having spent weeks at a time by myself in what is now called the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska, I believe I know these few things.

If you don't already know how to survive in the wild by yourself you will most likely die before you learn how.

Stay away from anything that moves unless you have a weapon that can kill it.
Anything that moves can be dangerous to you.

Trust your instincts but move slowly and don't do anything stupid. Cut, shoot, burn yourself, fall, break a bone, etc because there are no doctors or anyone of that type around to help you. Even doctors need a doctor now and then.

You will create relationships with people you knew in your mind and then you will start to talk to them. Just don't let them talk you into doing anything harmful to yourself.
These imaginary prople can be very convincing. And the longer you live with them the stonger they get.

Humans are social animals and require interaction with others of their own kind. Without it we start to slowly go mentally unbalanced in one way or another.
I developed the fear that I had forgotten how to speak. I spent half a day huming to myself because I was afraid that if I tried to say something and couldn't then that would be a bad thing. Of course when the bush plane dropped out of the sky in a blizzard to pick me up I forgot that fear and started yelling loudly so they could find me and get me out of there.

Spend the spring and summer months moving south and down to a warmer environment. Since everyone else is gone there is no longer a need of the concepts "ownership", "steal", "property". so take what you need. Spend your fall time geathering provisions and build/find shelter. Moving into a large Safeway for the winter might be a good idea.

Find a large dog. Make friends with it. The dog should help keep you out of trouble if it has any smarts what-so-ever. Plus they can keep you warm at night. If you get hungary enough you can always kill and eat it as a very last resort.

If you truely are the last human then the concept of "right and wrong" vanish.
Do what every you have to too survive.

You can live on hope. Hope that some day, somewhere, you will find another person.
Hopefully of the oppisite sex.

I would learn to operate construction and specialized equipment.

I would then design and build a monument, circa pyramids / washington monument, something like that,

But I would make it so big, it took like 30 years to complete. When I was done, I would have a good party, then go see how my monument compared to the ones still standing, and get ideas for improvements.

I'd then spend the rest of my days either
Improving my monument,
Admiring my monument,
Making another monument,
or masturbating.

Hey, you have to make plans, and have something to look forward to to avoid going crazy, right?

EXACTLY! (Man of few words at 1:29am CST)

Funny, but this used to be one of my recurrent nightmares as a kid...

If I was absolutely sure of being the last person on earth, I would do some research, drive to the nearest pharmacy, and take whatever drug would be the most peaceful to die of an overdose from.

I think the "last person on earth" thing would be a lot like Sartre's No Exit except without the other people. I'd have massive survivors guilt, and I'd be unbearably lonely. I would become my own torture device, and would go insane if I kept living after a year. Perhaps I would take the first year after the disease to see how long I could survive while reading and exploring the world, eating whatever has been left over from before. Then after, I would off myself.

I wouldn't bother repopulating the earth with people. I figure that if the entire human race is wiped out, we must be making room for something better to come along. (maybe I'd read and sleep and wank until this something better showed up...;))

Well, I'd probably sit down, then go into your house AUGI, and steal your f'n lego collection. AND smash that little freaky robot thing you have in your basement.

Oh and I'd definetly take a leak on the White House lawn.

Thats all i can think of right now.

I can't tell you how much i think this has enriched the philosophy forum

It's been mentioned, but I think dogs would become very important to maintaining sanity. A prybar and bolt cutters would become good friends.

I'm not sure if I'd be able to work towards any single goal, whether that be a monument or store of human artifacts. Humans are already astoundingly well preserved after death in their coffins, silicone implants will be around for forever barring geographical interruption.

I suppose I'd be more of a traveler post-apocalypse. I might feel the need to free a many zoo animals and livestock as possible. Moving across the ocean would be one of the most dangerous actions, but I think I might have an undeniable urge to do so. It would be fascinating to see what animals became dominant.

Believe Me D*D sometimes you just gotta water the grass. Wink

Thank you so much Dvorak... How can you hate Sparky?

If I ended up as the last human on earth I'd start out by trying to get into ALL of the places that I really didn't belong. Area51, the Pentagon, the White House, dig up all that dirt that security so carefully keeps you out of. I'd probably accidentally off myself attempting to mess with a nuclear warhead somewhere just because I thought it would be fun :) Of course I'd do all of this in a McLaren or something similar, playing with all the toys that I couldn't afford when limited by normal societal restrictions. Go to a military base and play with a Howitzer, find and air field and see if I could fly a stealth, break the Spruce Goose out of it's museum and take it for a spin, tour the Playboy mansion, and generally make an ass out of myself in ways that I normally couldn't even fathom.

I don't know if I could learn enough to clone a human being. The raw amount of effort required would be enormous. It might be quicker than an uplift project.

Cookies for breakfast!
Hoorah!

i would steal a SR-71 black bird, push the gas full open about 20ft off the top off the water. after i find a way to mid-air refuel it. blow stuff up. Find a really $$$ car fill it up with jet fuel put a brick on the pedal and lower the drive wheel and watch it brake things. plus some other ACE COMBAT style things. damn USAF willn't let me fly cause of my vison. Mod the living hell out off my cavalier. Find some c-4 and blow some more stuff up. find a way to keep the power plants going automated.


I just read back and saw the stuff i skiped.

6 million left. what is the fun it that. i wouled shoot anybody with my A-10, the gun, who said i was going to fast. I love that gun, deplend uriaum rounds, :makes drolling sounds like HOMER SIMPSON:

Unfortunately I live in Alaska an am male. So I suppose I would do online research on where certain longterm power sources are in the lower forty-eight, cloning, artificaial insemination and then stock up. I would head to the lower 48 and attempt to creat a set of human children. If that doesn't work I would spend my life learning ways to scribe and preserve our society so that others may understand it and learning/experimenting. I can't imagine food would be a significant problem as there are many long-term food supplies and I have many means to capture food sources. I imagine my greatest fears would be a serious health condition and insanity.

If there was a proportion of humanity I might see where and how they are consolidating. I would probably join to attempt to preserve what we have and move on.

In this scenario, would I know before hand that I was the last person alive?

If not, I would probably spend a lot of my time looking for other people.

If I knew, I would just find some sort of shelter that was close to a source of food, water, spare clothing, and some form of recreation (dirt bikes, books, a golf course, etc.) and just live out the rest of my life. I think I would be pretty bored, but not so bored that I would go insane because of it.

I would probably find the time not to be rushed anywhere. I would then figure out the best way to preserve mankind. Be it through learning how to clone and finding those facilities or writing the history of the last human.

6 mill left....

I would try to form a new society.

With 6 millioin people in a post-apocalyptic world, I'd gather followers and build a religion.

I'd find cars, guns, planes, and re-enact the coolest missions of San Andreas. Try crazy stunts....parachutes...grand canyon motorcycling...
become an expert in firearms...
and find the best wine and fine food that exists, scattered in the richest places.
Reading, music, getting good at the drums..
stopping at guitar Center and building a moooonnnnsteerrrr drumset with at least 30 cymbals..
Dude, this thread rocks.

I do it right now, even the end of the world won't change the fact

Call me insane but I used to fantasize about this type of scenario when I was a kid.

I'd travel the world basically. I'd have to learn to sail but you can actually see most places with very little ocean crossings (Russia to Alaska, Phillipines to Australia). It'd be fun & I doubt I'd ever really get lonely or go mad.

There are a few problems not typically thought of though, like you'd have to hunt or grow food (hunt if you're travelling). Electricity is gone (unless you can figure out how to start up generators). Electricity (I assume) is needed to pump gas/petrol - so you might have issues with travelling by car. Animals such as dogs will have turned wild so you might need to carry a gun with you. Ahhh the list goes on.

I had too much spare time on my hands.... lol

read a lot. learn how to fly, sail, sew, live off nature. find a dog (for a pet), grab a bunch of books I've always wanted to read, stock up as many AA batteries I could and ransack every music store I can find. then travel the world, looking for surviors, checking out ancient ruins (like aztec and what not). then if I ever managed to bump into anyone try to start a town and remake society and try to do it right.

I would destroy everything I could. Go to the army bases and get weapons,tanks,etc. After I was done, I would kill myself out of loneliness :(

That's a bit... dark.

Moving right along. I would probably just try and stockpile as much knowledge as I could, and then make a database of human society and culture so that when I would die, the human race would not just disappear, never to be seen again.

I'd also treat myself to the luxuries I always wanted.

Chances are I'd kill myself right off the bat. Why stockpile everything? Chances are it'll be destroyed as soon as a storm, tornado, etc. hits wherever you stockpiled it and I for sure am not one man army enough to build a complex to store all of the world's junk. No reason for me to go around places (Well, not sure how I'd get there) because when I travel it's nice to get the nicest things, but who is going to make you the finest foods? Treat you great? Etc.

I think given a chance I'd nuke myself. Just end it there. Sit down with a bottle of alcohol and pull the pin on a nuke while at a nuclear power plant. At least I'd have the most extravagant death the world's ever seen.

I'd probably cry a lot... hug my dog and drive my car to the middle of nowhere in a forest somewhere. Move into my dream cabin, and have an awesome garden. Read a lot... write even more. Let my life revolve around my dog, a bunny, and my garden.

The first thing I would do is visit the houses of all the hot girls I knew, and look for their digital cameras. :)
It would probably be fun at first, but eventually when there's no more electricity and stuff like that, I'd go stir crazy and makes friends with a volleyball alá Castaway!

Last person on earth... wow. the possibilities.

1) well, I would look around town for something entertaining, like a sledgehammer or something. Then i would smash some stuff cuz i like hitting things with sledgehammers.

2) Id loot! look around for diary's or secret things of my neighbors, they have to have their own porn stash somewhere in their basement or something.

3) I would get some guns and ammunition. No animals near me, but just target practice on stuff couldn't hurt.

4) I would go get one of the fastest cars and got to DC and see the secrets of the nation.

5) Go to Tops or w/e and get all the vitamins i could find so i wouldn't get scurvy or anything after everything rots.

6) If the vitamin thing doesn't work, I would maybe learn to farm or something. I would go to the local pound and get a bunch of animals and let the rest loose. All the Shih-Tzus would be mine!

7) after that day is done, i would go back to my home, mourn for hours, accept the fact that what is done is done. After like... a week of fun stuff like this, i would probably kill myself in fear of something bad happening to me like, falling off a cliff or something. I want my death to be known by me beforehand. So after praying for forgiveness of my suicide, i would do some thing quick and/ or painless. Sleep aid, throat cut, somethin easy.

8) Re-assure myself that everything happens for a reason.

First of all, I would mourn my family and friends. I would construct a memorial to them, pictures and other mememtos, where I could go to see them and remember them. Of course they'd still be in my heart at all times. I'd just want a physical display that they were here.

Second, I would probably go to the bank. I know, this seems stupid since I am the only person left, but We have lived paycheck to paycheck for as long as I can remember. I would want to feel the money and be able to "purchase" what I want not need. I'd leave money for everything, even if its really not my money.

Third, I'd "buy" myself all new clothes. And burn them after I wore them so I'd never have to do laundry again. Styles would never change because there is no competition for them to. I could finally wear anything I want and not worry what anyone thinks because I am the only one.

I would plant a garden every spring and watch it grow through the summer. I'd have a beautiful flower garden with ever kind of flower I could get to grow, I'm not much of a green thumb, but I'd learn.

I'd drive a brand new car and learn to drive a motorcycle. I'd do all the things that time won't allow now. I'd learn to sew and read everything I could. I'd go to church and pray. I'd watch movies I missed when they were released. I'd enjoy a sunset. I would do everything I possibly could.

I'm not a very social person as it is, I don't like to leave the house now so I don't think I would miss the people. I would miss my family and friends that I have become close to. I'd miss my kids and husband the most. I'd also miss my neighbors and the kids I babysit for. I love dogs, so if I had dogs around, I don't think I would be lonely.

I don't think I would live alot longer. As my prescriptions expire and the drugs at the pharmacies get old and lose their potency, I would probably end up dead soon after. I'd live it up until then.

As good as it all sounds, I wouldn't wish this to happen ever.

This would mean losing all of the creature comforts I have grown my happy little world around. Misery would be my friend, quickly. There would be books to read, but I'd miss playing on the computer, watching tv, listening to music, bask cooly in air conditioning through a Southern Summer and all other lovely things brought to me by electricity. I would fear to drink the water without any treatment. I don't want to even think of how I might manage to eat. I was never a Boy Scout!
IF, by some strange miracle there was still electricity, clean water and food was fresh forever....it would be the best damn vacation I had ever had.

Hummer first, then a trailor, a gas powered generator or 2 and some pumps so that I can continue to get to fuel. Then get some firearms, probably a 357 or 45 pistol, a 12 guage with various types of shells, and a couple of good rifles. Stock up on ammo, then off to a high end sporting goods store for top shelf camping and hunting / fishing equipment.... then off to the supermarket to stock up on canned goods and non-perishable food items. um, unless the everquest 2 servers were still up, then I'd probably die in my office chair with a high level character looking for more annoying quests...

Here's a strange thought and to be honest I don't know why I had it, but I thought of breaking into the houses of my friends and family and read all their diaries and go through their personal effects. I don't think I would feel disrespectful, after all if the human race is over, ethics and morals ceases to exist, right? Now there's a question! My motivation would be that, before I killed myself as I surely would I would want to know as much as there was to know about humanity. Something like that. Haven't completely worked it out but just thought I'd share the thought!

I'm responding before reading any other posts so as to not influence my thoughts and make them genuine.

With 6 million people still left scattered around the Earth... I'd try to have sex at least once before dying ...

Other than that, I'm not sure. It depends a lot. I'd probably bust into a Barnes&Noble and read every last book, and then I'd bust into a Borders and read every book that Barnes&Noble didn't have, and then I'd bust into all the local bookstores and read all of them books. You get the idea.

You know, there is some proof that a cladogenic event has happened to human beings like this before, and we rebuilt. I don't remember what exactly that evidence is, since it was something that I learned in my last biology class... but I'm most likely too lazy to look it up. One thing that I can say is that I was watching a documentary on the Discovery Channel about the world's largest volcano in history, which is now a city in modern day (I'll be damned if I can remember the name of the city though), and it is thought that the eruption of this volcano could be the cladogenic event that killed off nearly 70% of the human population at the time. Maybe all of this is already mentioned in a post above me... if not, here it is.

EDIT: Just for the hell of it, I'm also going to assume that I can suddenly live forever, assuming that I don't accidentally kill myself. This puts me in mind of Lazarus Long (Heinlein fans know who I'm talking about). Lazarus Long is such a kick ass character, I'd strive to be like him. So, here's a list of stuff that I'd do if there was 6 million people left and I could live forever:
-Have lots of wild monkey sex
-Create/participate in giant outdoor orgies
-Become a master of every subject so that I, along with the rest of my fellow 6 million people, could start rebuilding the Earth.
-Learn how to fight
-Get into a lot of fights to toughen myself up
-Write a shitload
-Probably keep a journal and write everything down, even insignificant shite
-Of course, try to find other people
-Create my own country (calling it a state sounds too crappy; Country sounds more sovereign and powerful)
-Learn every language and encourage others to do the same
-Make every language the official language (you know, to encourage people to be really eclectic with langauges). I think this'd be really awesome, 'cause right now you got mixes of languages like Spanglish and umm... well you know. Wherever there is a community of people who are fluent in more than one langauge, it becomes inevitable that they start mixing them. Imagine how freaking cool it would be to live in a country where everyone knows almost every language. In perhaps 100 years you'd get a few languages that are the result of mixing all of the Earth's languages (or maybe even one central language that is the result of mixing all of pre-existing languages)
-Invent my own languages
-Create a centralized internet. I'd have a whole city just dedicated to housing servers. It'd be an uber City of Computers... or something.
-Write lots of cool programs in every programming language (I'm already in the process of programming my own forum in PHP that is actually useable already :))
-Write my own programming languages
-Write my own OS
-Learn how to build boats, and build lots of them
-Get into really good physical shape
-Read every religious text ever written several times to become fluent in their ideologies and what not
-Be an awesome leader by setting examples (6 million people need a leader, right?)
-Have lots and lots of kids... with different women >.> (okay, so I probably wouldn't be able to do this if I wanted to lead by example... or I could make it socially acceptable to have lots of kids with different women ^_^)
-Drive lots of fancy cars. I'd especially want to drive a Nissan Skyline, and then a McLaren F1, and any other super-fast F1 cars. I'd also want to learn how to drift (you know, like in that anime Initial D)
-Build my own house. I'd blast down a whole neighborhood and clear away all the ruins so that I could build a super-massive mansion. I'd of course make sure that no one was living in any of the houses first. And I'd invite as many people as possible to come live with me. We'd have several out-doors pools and what not.
-Push for space exploration. I'd gladly give up my post on Earth just to sail amongst the stars for the rest of my life, regardless of the cost or the risk involved. I'm a lot like Heinlein in that I want very badly to be able to explore the stars within my lifetime. I love watching anything related to space, and reading about stuff that's out there. Unfortunately, I don't see this actually happening even within my lifetime.
-Rebuild the Tower of Babel :)
-Build my own pyramid the way the ancient Egyptians did.

I'll stop here since this has gone way beyond the realm of the original post.

EDIT2: Yes, I did take some time to read about 80% of all the posts above after my initial post.

Such a language somewhat exists and is known as Esperanto, which I wish I was taught first since I suck at learning new languages.

The trick with having 6 million people left alive on Earth is that not many people are as altruistic (possibly philanthropic) and existential as you, Stiltzkin. Yes, some may look at this a golden opportunity--"We have been spared to rebuild it: better, faster, strong" and the 6 Million Dollar Man theme queues up. If you banded together with such other people seeing this as the time for enlightenment, what is to be done with the remainder of people there who enjoy the idea of simply destroying what is left?

I know I would be one of those who would go out and find the first gas station and set it a blaze. Or better yet, change the gas price up there to "$0.99 9/10" like it was when I was a kid! Then burn it.

I would come to my senses after having my fill of senseless destruction and help rebuild, do everything I can to better this new society, but how to either combat or integrate those that do not see this as the bold journey ahead?

Just a thought.

I like the idea of smashing something! I have to stay reserved in my real life so smashing something would kick ass! My first thought was to clone/impregnate myself but then I decided that going on a rampage of destruction would be cooler. I already read so much so why not take this golden opportunity to deviate from the norm?

Going to the Smithsonian would be awesome! I could go around and around and around the rooms and not have to worry about anyone kicking me out.

I like the idea of wearing whatever I wanted. I would make crazy outfits and then take pictures of myself. Either that or walk around naked all the time!

Yup, it would be good times all around (except for the still quickly decomposing dead bodies).

Those people would be dealt with ruthlessly ::evil grin::
Actually, I don't know. Until such time, I'll just have to think about it :D

I'd do a shitload of drugs.

What else would you do?

At least the drugs will make you feel happy and put you in a state of euphoria.

Then one day you get lucky and OD!

Hmm...

I'd start out by going to the bookstore and collecting all of the books I've ever wanted to read. And I'd sit, and read them all.

That would take a while though, so first, I'd need to procure some source of transportation, some sort of shelter, and a source of food. So I might just make my home in different grocery stores. I probably wouldn't find much fresh produce, but I'm a college student, I've learned to survive on Top Ramen already. I'd jack every car, switching from car to another, when each runs out of gas.

I'd go to all the best fashion boutiques and get a whole new wardrobe.

I'd see things and do things I never would've been allowed to before, like feeding the animals and playing in mud.

I'd Visit national monuments and famous places. No waiting lines will be neat.

I don't deny I'd fancy a look through Angelina Jolie's underwear drawer. (Admit it, think of all the naughty, naughty things you can do now that everyone is dead)

I would steal famous works of art, just for the hell of it.

I'd exist, for as long as I could, solely on the idea that in doing everything I've ever wanted, I have the freedom to do nothing.

I would probably start by blowing some stuff up. That is always fun, and would be especially fun to blow big things up. Yes, I am easily amused. I would try to travel, but I don't know if I would trust myself to fly a plane across the ocean to go to Europe or Asia or anything. But, most importantly, when I was ready to die, I would try my hardest to get to space. Maybe steal a space shuttle or a rocket or something, and try to learn how to use it. The reason I would do it when I was ready to die is, I am sure there is really no way I could get back to Earth safely. So, I would just finish my life drifting through space.

Edit: Oh yea, I would probably spend some time at the SETI Institute, and broadcast what the hell happened on this planet everywhere I could.

I liked how some said cloning...what do you incubate the eggs in? Unless you're a woman and prepared to impregnate yourself with this fertilized egg (turkey baster) - you are outta luck.
Especially since one person put it right - the power grid would be gone in days. Byebye liqNit freezer tanks.

I would mourn the loss of humans for a long, long time especially family and friends (and Morten Harket). I'd get a bunch of dogs to take care of but would still probably go Hanks and start talking to a volleyball named Wilson. Scratch that - it would be a soccer ball named Copa.

If I'm truly the LAST person on earth I'd do as follows. I'd miss my wife terribly but eventually survival instinct and curiosity about the world would kick in and I'd move on. After gathering a fair amount of canned food and bottled water. I'd stockpile some medical supplies, vitamins, and textbooks. There are no doctors after all, gotta try to stay healthy. I'd also carry with me at all times some form of self-euthanasia. If I became injured in some way where I couldn't help myself I wouldn't want to lay there through a slow and miserable death. I'd get some generators and acquire a loaded fuel truck so I could have electricity for my amusement. This way I could watch DVD's and play video games for some sort of simulated human interaction. I'd base out of some place with a really beautiful view and a good clean water supply. I'd probably do some hunting. Canned food is going to get boring so I'd supplement with deer, rabbit, various poultry, cows, pigs and what not. Basically any animal I've eaten before would end up on my dinner table. I'd have a garden for fresh veggies. I'd read a lot of eastern philosophy, try to make peace with my situation. I'd monitor the radio for any other survivors and from time to time travel and explore. Mostly I'd continue with the day to day tasks of living until I died naturally or offed myself.

Now, under the 6 million other survivors scenario, I'd react somewhat differently. I'd still gather food and supplies first but would put more effort into reaching other people. I'd keep myself well armed in case some nut with a messiah complex and a bunch of goony followers tried to strong-arm me. You know, like if Bush survives. (sorry, I just had ta'!) It'd be nice to have another person to talk to from time to time but I wouldn't look forward to any big organized, rule enforcing, god-fearing government to spring up. I'd stay near enough to other people for the occasional visit but far enough away for real solitude. Then I'd just live.

1. Secure generous (almost ludicrous) stockpile of guns and ammunition.
2. Find a female companion. If possible, a bisexual one.
3. Repeat step 2, for obvious reasons.
4. Stockpile lots of good book.
5. Get a place out in the woods near a river, in an area that is fit for fishing and hunting.
6. Live with my women until the end of our natural lives, fucking like rabbits all the way.

(and just for good measure, at some point before moving out to the country, i'd go crazy ape shit on a mall, gas station, that sort of thing, and just blow shit all to hell, destroy stuff, that sort of thing.)

(and also for those wondering why 2 women, it's because company-wise, 3 people is better for everyone's sanity than just 2... and sex with two women is fucking awesome.)

If there would be no other human beings than me, the reaction will be both ways.

I might not be too used to be the last human on earth and I might feel a bit weird that from then on only I will understand my words. But on the other hand I do feel relived since I am really tired of all the human norms and rules. After all we humans are merely animals in the very very beginning. Without hesitation I will take all my clothes off, start living in a treehouse and mingle with the animals around me. Probably I will try to intergrate with a Chimp clan- after all we only have 1 pair of genes different from them. In other words we are just X-chimps.

Anyway. I was just about to say I actually would be happy more than sad if everyone else has gone. I just don't really feel like I would ever want to fit into the grown-up human society- finish university, get a job, get an apartment, get a car, get married, earn money, support yourself and your parents, be socialable, stay within the social norms, etc... so I don't really see anything bad if I have to be a real Mowgli and mingle with the lovely animals out in the wild. Life's gonna be free and sweet.