@galenkp has given us number of topics to write about for the weekend engagement topic for week 123. I haven't submitted for the past few weekends as was kind of busy but this topic this week really resonated with me as I was thinking about just this when I saw the post.
Is there something worse than dying? What is it and why do you feel it is worse? Explain your answer.
Let me first take you back in time. I don't remember the year, or even exactly where I was. I was too young for remembering too much. I was probably about 11 or 12 which means it was mid 1980s.
My family had been driving down through France as part of our trip to our holiday location in the South of France. I was tired and wanted to sleep but everyone else was hungry. They went to find a shop to buy food and left me in the car to sleep.
I remember waking with a jolt when the nuclear war warning siren went off. It was so loud. I looked down the street and didn't see anyone, not even a car. I felt scared and just stayed in the car looking around to see what was going on.
A few minutes later, my family returned to the car and they were laughing and happy. I realised there was nothing to worry about. Apparently the French tested the siren in a particular day in the summer. It was just a test.
The point being, I was actually scared of nuclear war when I was a kid. It seemed like a real possibility. We were all reminded it would be MAD. Mutually assured destruction. However, it seemed all to real to me as a kid that the NATO and the Soviet Union were pushing each other to the edge.
In the UK, there were secret facilities and bunkers during the cold war everywhere. The UK had a plan, of sorts. Below is a photo I took recently on the border of what is now a low key military site but at the height of the cold war would have been part of the major defences.
The UK government gave out loads of information during the cold war as to how to survive a nuclear war. I read this article earlier this week which shows the stupidity of what we were told we would need to do.
Building stupid shelters in broken houses. What the hell am I meant to eat? Where would we get water? Surely the radiation is going to kill us even if we could miraculously find food. Or someone else will kill us trying to get our food for ourselves. There would be no society and no life to live.
In summary, if there was a full out nuclear war between world super-powers, even if I did survive, I am not sure what I would be surviving for. This is the one and only event I kind of feel - I wish the big one would just kill me out right. Survival seems worse than dying.
Although we seem to be edging closer - hopefully it is a scenario that none of us ever witness.
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As long as there are nuclear weapons we will always be worried, I hope that someday the countries that have them will agree and eliminate them completely.
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It takes a mature collective will to disarm and get rid of the weapons of mass destruction. We seem to have regressed to a certain extent. I had more hope at the end of the cold war but not such much now.
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I'd hate to see that nowadays. I hope the people in charge of the red button do the right thing...
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That's the problem. It's down to the people in charge. You can have loads of good leaders but then you only need one nutter in charge and it could be an absolute calamity. Hopefully it doesn't come down to just one loon.
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This scares me too, because it's really awful.
Let's pray that it never happens. Surely we have matured and developed beyond just killing ourselves?
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I hope so too.
I pray we don't witness such scenario please.
Me too. With everything we know today - surely we are beyond this type of stupidity?
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Hopefully, it won't go so far! Let's stay positive!
Hopefully the leaders won't lose the plot. There doesn't seem to be much we can do!
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War indeed is very bad. We earnestly pray for peace to come.
I hope peace lasts, Most people in life just want peace. It just takes a handful of people to ruin it though.
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I can imagine how scared you were then just envisaging a real nuclear war. That feeling is gradually creeping in looking at the way things are just playing out recently. We however hope it does not escalate beyond what it is right now.
There were a lot of warning back then about nuclear war. There was tension on the TV news. It all seemed so real as a kid and witness the really loud siren. One of the most chilling moments of my life!
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Thank God it was just a warning siren
Yep, as a kid though, it still scared the living daylights out of me.
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Wow mate i agree with you to be honest looks like we will be reliving this the way things are going.
I was talking to my wife about this i said the best thing would be find out where the blast will be and get as close as possible that way it is over quickly.
The UK is too small to hide from any fallout which would be much more suffering that instant death in the center of the blast.
They won't be opening any bunkers for us little people.
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Exactly, even a bunker wouldn't help. In London, there is a good chance I just get knocked out by the initial blast but if I did survive, it would be hell.
Let's hope it never happens.
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Absolutely agree would suck beyond the telling of it for sure hopefully we never find out.
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I think there are times when agony is more terrifying than death. Some time ago, reading a report on human rights violations, I found a description of the torture to which people were subjected and I really felt that my skin turned as if it were in an ice chest... It is said that There are people who, in the midst of constant pain, already begged to be killed.
In a context of nuclear war, the effects of contamination, the fight against other survivors, the daily desperation... I certainly think that they can pose a scenario in which it is preferred to die in one fell swoop.
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I agree, I am sure with some torture that I would beg to be killed. The descriptions of those who survive and all out nuclear war are also too much to consider.
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That could be worse than dying because you are going to die from radiation but it could take a long time. #ListNerd Run
It just seems that a drawn out death with radiation killing you, hunger, famine, disease. With all civilisation lost and everything you knew destroyed. It would be a pointless agony to continue.
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