If you were the only human alive?

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yeah and for this to happen there would need to be no laws so he he... Welch Allyn here I come!! !

It still would be nice if I were able to... well it is only a ban in Minnesota... but I don't want to support them until they get better management... or none.

Follow the plot of Richard Matheson's book "I Am Legend", after I find a basketball or volleyball and name it Wilson or Spalding.

I think that, if i could stand being so utterly alone on the planet, i would go walking. I would walk from town to village to house to house, staying wherever needed to. I think i would find enough to look at in europe so wouldn't need boats or planes, but i might try to walk the channel tunnel so could see england again.
I would probably spend days in second hand bookshops, and video rentals, and at some point i think i'd want to hole up, so i'd find a GORGEOUS house with a beautiful garden, and solar energy heating, and a natural spring, and make myself snug through winters. Would live on a lot of dried fruit and nuts and seeds and tinned stuff.
Sardines in tomato sauce etc!
And like someone says i'd make several dens/snugs in my favourite kinds of places; by the sea particularly. I'd use motor bikes where ever i found them.
When the wolves and wild dogs and stuff begin to proliferate I'd have to learn how to use a gun i suppose.
I'd visit the places i've never been able to get into before.

I'd reanimate my best friends and spend a few months playing with various cars in the twin cities. It looks like i'd be siphoning gas. Here is my list, and I know the location of all of these. This is all I can think of off the top of my head but i'm sure we'd find others to play with and race.
2008 Porsche Boxster S limited edition
2008 Porsche 911 turbo convertible
2008 Porsche Cayenne turbo
2006 Porsche Cayenne turbo S
2008 Audi RS4
2008 Audi S5
2007 Bentley Continental GT convertible
2005 Mercedes G55
1958 Mercedes 220S convertible
2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
1995 Land Rover Defender 90
2006 Jaguar XKR convertible
2007 Lotus Exige S
2003 Ferrari 360 spider
1988 Bentley Mulsanne S
2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder

I find it very interesting that very few people have said much about being sad that everyone else is gone. I know I'd be sad that my family was gone but that would be fairly short lived, I think.

I'd then start traveling south so I could be somewhere warm by the time winter came. I live in the north now. I'd like to travel around and see all sorts of places. I guess it would depend on "how" the people were gone and whether they left their stuff lying around.

How many here have read Stephen King's The Stand? An absolute favorite of mine when it comes to apocalyptic fiction. I also enjoyed I Am Legend but I wouldn't want to be around all the vampires.

On a semi-related note, some travel companies had started offering tours through the deserted city of Chernobyl. At first people seemed interested, but after less than 10 minutes of being in the deserted and silent city, tourists were begging to leave! They couldn't stand the eerieness of it!

I dont understand what you guys would do after you have done all your epic plans. Getting drunk, stealing artwork, etc. You have no one to share it with! After you are done, who do you have to talk to?

I don't think hell is other people all the time. There is a primordial loneliness we all feel, that we try to fill with other people.

Here's what I would do, in no particular order.

1. If dogs don't count as people, I'd bring my beagle friend with me.

2. I'd light a torch to serve as my source of heat and light from now on. I'd pack a bunch of wood with matches and lighters just in case.

3. I'd form a train of shopping carts and fill them up. I'd pack:
-Bottled water and other beverages
-Weapons - both for hunting and for protecting myself from any predators or mutants that take the time to spawn
-Clothes - jackets, gloves, towels - I wouldn't mind going nude, but I wouldn't mind the extra warmth in colder weather
-Paper, pencils, pens, and markers - I'll draw like I normally do, and write down my memories, knowing there's probably no one in the universe who would ever read them
-String - to leave trails in case I get lost exploring woods or something
-Anything not requiring power that will entertain me

4. I'd travel the empty roads, exploring various cities, towns, and countrysides that I wouldn't normally see

5. I'd seek a home somewhere in the north. Hopefully I can find some beautiful scenery to compensate for my loneliness.

6. I'd begin to learn how to hunt and cook as my artificial food supply decreases

7. As I become bored of one place I'll seek another

8. I'll start talking to myself, my dog, and inanimate objects, pretending they're my friends, to prevent myself from being lonely

9. I'd cry a lot, knowing the life that I'd missed and seriously consider killing myself, especially if I didn't have my dog to look after

10. I'd look wherever I could to make sure that I really was the last survivor, and hope that whoever I meet doesn't try to eat me

11. I could try to see if I could drive a train to get to faraway places...and maybe crash.

12. Even if I am hopelessly lonely, I can find some solace in the fact that I'm no longer bound to social norms, and I can pretty much do anything with my body that I want

13. Overall, I would try to live my life as fully and freely as possible, with no one else left, until the bitter end

Here is what I would do in no particular order:

1.} Find shelter. It's important to stay dry and as warm as possible.

2.} Arm myself. In case something horrible happened, it is important to be armed if something or someone tries to kill me.

3.} Find a source of heat. I would find some good-sized pieces of wood and burn it, adding paper and whatever I find to my outdoor stove.

4.} Find food & drink. I would break into any grocery store and steal all dry food, powdered milk, bottled water, and any fruits & vegetables.

5.} Find batteries for a portable radio and a charger for my cell phone.

6.} Build a portable radio so that way I can call for help.

7.} Find an animal or an inanimate object and pretend it is my friend, preferably a dog or a volleyball or both.

8.} Find a source of light. I can use natural light all I please but in the fall and winter, I might have to use candles, several flashlights, or a very cheap lamp as my source of light.

9.} Find clothing. I would become tired of wearing the same clothes over and over so I would break into a clothing store to steal clothes that fit me and would keep me warm.

10.} Most importantly, I would try as hard as I can to find other people!

PS: A good piece of apocalyptic fiction is "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

In the world I see, I'm stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. I will wear leather clothes that last me the rest of my life. I will climb the wrist thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. I will be pounding corn and laying-strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of the ruins of a superhighway...

Seriously though I'd be devastated at the loss of my wife. I'd also mourn the loss of any other human companionship. But then, I'd maybe survive and move on with my life.

I'm thinking there are still animals and all forms of non-human life still around, otherwise there'd be very little point to hang around.

First thing I'd do is (as many have mentioned) arm myself. I own a fairly decent katana, but I'd go to the gunshop and pick up something, setting up a weapons and ammo cache. I'd also grab a couple of compound bows and teach myself archery, possibly get a book or two on fletching so I can make my own ammo for those. I'd never be without my trusty sword, of course.

I'd get a few books on survival techniques, SAS guides and the like.

Then, I'd grab a car and teach myself to drive. Then I'd travel around looking for others - I wouldn't give up on there being somebody else just yet. Seems strange that only I remain, there is most likely some other person who shares the same characteristics that would have lead to my survival.

I'd never drive further than walking distance (a couple of days walk) from any likely settlement that would have a vehicle should my current mode of transport break down. Better yet, I'd take a couple of horses if I ran across any. The most important thing I'd carry, would be water.

I'd head for the cities. Brisbane first, then maybe head on to Sydney. I don't think I'd be game to travel across the ocean.

If I settled down. I'd go for the solar power option, lift as many as I can from rooftops, hardware centers, anywhere and rig up a battery array. Watch DVD's, play the odd computer game.

As food approached it's used by date, I'd have to start farming. I could hunt for my meat, but I'd need vegetables and foraging for wild carrots doesn't sound like an effective solution.

Then, for companionship, I'd get a few dogs. If I had room, I'd get a few cats too. The dogs can help me hunt as well. I'd feel better with my pack around me.

I'd probably end up living in a department store in Sydney. And that's when I'd write my memoires and a record of what occured, maybe for whoever might come after, or perhaps just for myself. I'd have to write it onto a medium that is incorruptible so that it'll last for a very long time.

By the way, I Am Legend is coming out soon at the cinema. I've always been fascinated by this type of last-human-on-Earth hypothesis. I also do zombie apocalypses!

I would, of course, mourn the loss of my family and friends very deeply. And the rest of humanity and all that, I suppose.

But I'd have to take advantage of the situation a bit. I'd loot all the stores I could walk to, I'd live like a king, snoop through everyone's houses. Then, I'd go find a pack of wolves to live with. Being completely alone for too long would make me paranoid.

I would get an ATV and go cross-country, enjoying the sights and looting supplies as I went. I suppose I would have to get a gun, just in case I ran into other survivors who were crazy or evil. Also I would take a dog along for companionship.
This conversation makes me think of "The Stand".

Anything I want! The whole world is mine for the taking! I wouldn't have to deal with things like people, customs, morals, or money getting in the way. I'd go read bunches of books, take some abandoned vehicle that won't be missed and drive wherever I want in the world. Except those pesky oceans are still in the way, but I'm sure I'll have plenty of time to find a boat or learn to fly a plane.
Mostly, I'd travel around seeing all the things I've always wanted to see, seeking other survivors on the way (how am I to know I'm the only one?).

I certainly wouldn't have to bother with making my place in the world anymore. My place would be the whole world, and I'd make the best of it.

I would kill myself. I could never be alone.

I'm a big fan of novels and movies whose action takes place in a postapocalyptic world. For example King's "The Stand". Or that book for teenagers I read few times but I have no idea who is an author. It's title is "Plaque" and it is about three young people, friends from the same school - two girls who were best friends with each other and their buddy, a boy from a Muslim family. Action takes place in London whose majority of inhabitants died during epidemy about which our heroes found out having returned from a summer camp.

I always dreamed about being the only person alive all over the world. Even though in reality I'd be afraid of living in such a way (after all, what if you get appendicitis or break a limb and there are no doctors who could help you), fantasizing about this is utterly pleasant. I'd break into deserted houses and stores, taking everything what would give a promise that it would be useful. I'd travel across all Europe. And I would do everything I always wanted to do.