Does this mean we are all going to die soon?

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I do not spend a great time worrying about things like this. There have been many incidents in our world, even long before time of of any of us that are now living, that could have taken a turn in the wrong direction and brought an end to the world as we know it, in both our own doing and the doing of the forces of nature. If the time comes, it will come and there is nothing I can do it about. I only hope that if the end does come for us, I am one of the first to go and not one of the ones that struggle in extreme hardship, pain, and despair until the end. Maybe I feel this way because of my age and that, while there is a lot in this world I would still like to see, I have seen and experienced enough that I would not be leaving this earth with a feeling of a life unfilled.

One thing to remember about many of the world-ending scenarios we talk about, some like a comet or a nuclear war could possibly wipe us all from the face of earth, some others like a horrible pandemic or a complete economic collapse could kill off almost everyone in the world, it is likely a few will survive. There are some still living in tribal communities that have little contact with the outside world that would have their day-to-day lives barely effected by an economic collapse in the rest of the world and even a few in the mainstream of the world will crawl out of the doom and survive. In some of the worst diseases to effect the world, there are always some that, for some reason, are routinely exposed to these communicable diseases and just do not get them. Many of the possible world-ending scenarios will not end the world, but will end the world as we know it, but I am fairly certain that new world is something I would not want to be a part of.