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#41 ·
In the early apocalypse book, " Malevil" the hero died of appendicitus. Mine blew up when I was 21 and at Catalina Island. I barely made it, like 10 days in the hospital and a month at my mom's convalesing. For what is nearly an outpatient proceedure now.

If you have a family history maybe you can get preemptive surgery?
 
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#42 ·
I have cheated death so many times that our cat has been loaning me lives...

I refuse to speculate on my own demise. But if it's like everything else these days, to get the job done right, I'll probably have to do it myself. ;)
 
#43 ·
If I'm assigning odds I'd guess
70% health related, I get a dysentery, cut gets infected and goes septic, heart attack, butt fungus, something viral or bacterial.
10% starvation, lack of resources, exposure. Too hot or too cold.
10% conflict with someone or multiple people. shot, stabbed, sabotage
10% environmental, 5 years in a rock crushes me, building collapses maybe due to tornado or hurricane. Bear attack, snake or spider, lightening strike
 
#45 ·
I am stubborn in my faith in God and have known His intervention in my 73 years regularly.
Regardless of the circumstances stacked against me God works things out with or without my participation.
I am stubborn because friends try to get me to do things the way the world does and no matter how things appear to be going I won't bend. I'm not perfect but for the most part I don't worry about what I will do if this or that happens.
Worst scenario might be having to hike home 30 miles or more without my gear.
I have prided myself in being prepared, but no one can guarantee when or where they will be when things fall apart.
The place I live now has a well but if the power is gone there is no provision to operate the lower pump, and the tanks are only good for a few thousand gallons, but these folk around me may not have the discipline to use that resource carefully. I figure on helping others with what resource I've got.
I suspect that being a desert community, many of these folk already have some survival plan, but no community agreement.
 
#47 ·
Aceoky said:
Seriously though, I never focus on failure but spend my time trying to figure the best possible way to try to survive every possible situation. I look for possible flaws and find ways to eliminate them. Nothing is guaranteed , but failure is not an option.
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As James T. Kirk said, "I don't believe in no-win scenarios."
 
#51 ·
merlinfire said:
You awake to the sound of thunder and your house shakes. After a few seconds you realize all the power went out. Your phone won't connect to the mobile network. You try the radio but there's no signal on most channels, but after about 20 minutes you finally find one.

You find out that 1Mt nukes fell squarely on city hall in every city in the world over 100,000 people. The station begins broadcasting repeating emergency management style warnings, which it does for a few days, and then it goes offline.

You're on your own in a TEOTWAWKI. You'll do your best. You'll do great. You've planned for this. You're ready. But mistakes happen, the unexpected occurs even during the survival of the unexpected. And nobody lives forever.

But the question is, what "gets you"? In your opinion, if you had to guess one thing, based on your experience, your health, your current equipment and supplies, your region, the risks to security in your area, your climate.

I figure, i get sick or get an infection, and the only kind of antibiotics that will work are the ones I don't have. Or something similarly medical. It would take a long, long time for me to starve to death. The water table is so shallow here it's a real nuisance some of the time.
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Well, since I live in a city of over 100,000 people I'm guessing radiation sickness.
 
#52 ·
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I have cheated death so many times that our cat has been loaning me lives...

I refuse to speculate on my own demise. But if it's like everything else these days, to get the job done right, I'll probably have to do it myself. ;)
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I'm SO stealing that first line. 😉😘

And ... I live in a "Big League City" (**** you VERY much Mayor Holt) that also has a couple of air bases within less than a half day's drive so I'm toast. I won't even know it has happened until the rowboat to Hell pulls up in front of the house.

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#55 ·
MantiCora said:
Appendicitis.

Does anybody know how to get an elective appendectomy in the US healthcare system? I'd be happy to throw money at the problem, but I'm yet to encounter a GP willing to tell me where to throw it.
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@MantiCora This is done but you're probably on the hook for 100% as elective, so multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. Have you been told this isn't something you can just pay for? By who? It's not really any different than any elective surgery or anything cosmetic, find someone to do it, sign away any liability rights, and write the extremely big check.

I don't know that it's common but special forces, bush pilots, submariners, people we send to the space station or antarctic, other remote researchers, even government officials stationed in unsavory places all can have this done.
 
#56 ·
My wife shoots me for cause. I get an STD from an outside doornob, mutated from nuclear contaimination. She reasonably suspects that its true but aims for a painful non-mortal body part, on principle. Unfortunately, in the grimey apocalypse, its enough. Entirely appropriate way to end, for me. I'm fed to the mutated meat hogs at the farm down the way.
 
#57 ·
merlinfire said:
You awake to the sound of thunder and your house shakes. After a few seconds you realize all the power went out. Your phone won't connect to the mobile network. You try the radio but there's no signal on most channels, but after about 20 minutes you finally find one.

You find out that 1Mt nukes fell squarely on city hall in every city in the world over 100,000 people. The station begins broadcasting repeating emergency management style warnings, which it does for a few days, and then it goes offline.

You're on your own in a TEOTWAWKI. You'll do your best. You'll do great. You've planned for this. You're ready. But mistakes happen, the unexpected occurs even during the survival of the unexpected. And nobody lives forever.

But the question is, what "gets you"? In your opinion, if you had to guess one thing, based on your experience, your health, your current equipment and supplies, your region, the risks to security in your area, your climate.

I figure, i get sick or get an infection, and the only kind of antibiotics that will work are the ones I don't have. Or something similarly medical. It would take a long, long time for me to starve to death. The water table is so shallow here it's a real nuisance some of the time.
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Something medical, most likely. Or, being too sympathetic to someone (which doesn't come terribly naturally, until it does, which is when I would regret it of course...sigh)
 
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#58 ·
Orrrr trying to remember how to operate that f-15 in my driveway...that thing is such a pain some days... :ROFLMAO:
 
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Sickness/infection and/or accident/injury trying to do more manual labor at 61 than I've done since I was 12. DH will die a bad death from cancer without access to the doctors and drugs that are keeping it in remission right now. I don't think I would want to live for long, alone in the kind of world you're describing. But if DH were gone I'd do everything in my power to get to my kids and grandkids about 7 hours away. If I could, then helping them cope with such a world would become my new reason for living.
 
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