You're the last two humans on Earth. Would you repopulate?

A few years ago, I left my prostate in a hospital bio-hazard waste bin so repopulating is not an option for me. I’d make my life as comfortable as possible and would somehow work out a method to contact others if they are out there. My first stop would be to a sporting goods store. Next would be a hardware store.
Colored smoke, radio beacons, smoke signals, acoustic signals, flares, etc..

No birthing of babies without a doctor present for me. I don’t know how they did it until modern medicine came along. So my vote would be no. I’d be looking at the stars and determining where my next meal was coming from, like the ancients.

Well I had a vasectomy years ago, but, uh, they don’t have to know that.

The character, ‘Carol’ talks about believing in god, so I’m going to guess they may somehow identify with the myth of Adam and Eve. I absolutely would NOT do what they are doing, but I would guess it would be difficult not to despair in that situation. The only thing I liked what he did was he went to museums and got beautiful paintings to hang about but he was quite a peasant about it. In one scene you can see him wiping his face on what looks like the American Constitution, which I thought was REALLY funny. I think that I would probably try to live in a museum because it would be easier than moving the beautiful things I’d want to look at. Also, if the other human was that irritating, I would chose solitude… with books and libraries and museums and I would write a journal.

I’ll let you know when the apocalyptic dust clears.

As for Fox’s “The Last Man on Earth,” yes, and interesting premise but a terrible first episode.

Hell no,the last bunch fucked it right up,just let it go the way of the Dinosaurs .

No, i’d cut off my balls & place them on an alter so that future alien visitors could marvel at their magnificence.
This would not be done until much humping had ensued & my sperm well had ran dry.

No way! Would not like the species to go on.

I’d be sure to give it a shot but the similarities of genes (interbreeding) would doom the result very soon.

Most likely no, but I would still like to have sex.

Well, I had a vasectomy, but if I didn’t, I would be repopulating my ass off.

Well shit.

Haven’t had a vasectomy yet so I guess that means just anal and oral now.

Prepare yourself.

With a gene pool of two, chances of actually repopulating are 0.

Also, what @jca said. I had two babies with ease. No drugs. But of course I was in a hospital. Natural child birth is very dangerous. Good chance it would wipe out 50% of that there gene pool.

If it were just an issue of natural childbirth? Risky, but worth it.

Inbreeding? Not happening.

If the world had really come to that ,and you found yourself in that position , would anyone here really feel it was their duty to try and start the human race back up??
I sure as hell would not .

Well, assuming I could get my hands on medical material and train myself on the intricacies of child birth, maybe… It would be nice to start a new population that at least begins with the ideals you pass down through parenthood. As for the issue of inbreeding, simple… You kill the bad ones… I know that’s probably gonna get me yelled at, but it’s the fucking apocalypse and survival of the species, not to mention yourself. Moral taboos of an extinct society and bad genes go out the window for the sake of posterity. I’ll be eating baby seal with a side of golden eagle if I can’t find anything else.
We can worry about reintroducing modern morals (minus religion) when/if we even make it that far.

One thing – in a situation like that how would you honestly know that you’re the last two people on Earth? No means of global communication, no census takers, no institutes compiling population data. If the two of you happened to survive within close enough proximity to mate with each other then wouldn’t it stand to reason that there are other pockets of surviving humans on the planet?

@Darth_Algar
In reality I agree, but it’s a concept piece of fiction here. You literally are the last 2 people in this scenario.

I think I’ve read that it wouldn’t even be possible to successfully repopulate the species from two individuals. Not enough genetic diversity to be viable.

Not with that woman. She is the one who wants sex and re-population. The guy wanted sex but is in touch with the reality of the situation and was kind of turned off by her insane insistence on pr-apocalypse norms of relationships.

This show kinda wants to make her the hero, while making me as a man think, ok, women are crazy and I have to play along for sex.

That would depend on WHO I was left with.

The idea of trying to repopulate the human race from 2 people , kinda makes me sick, the inbreeding what are you going to do?
father breeds daughter?
Son breeds mother?
Brother breeds sister?
Makes me want to chuck my cookies, I know this is a hypothetical question, but if we humans are stupid enough to get wiped out to the last 2,then just enjoy each other,because we would be way to stupid to try and repopulate this shit pile with only 2 humans.

If I find the other person attractive I wouldn’t mind practicing. I wouldn’t want or be able to procreate though. If there’s only me and him left, I think we might as well just enjoy ourselves.

@Darth_Algar I agree, which is why I said, ”...if they couldn’t track down at least one other…” They’d never really know for sure, but at some point they’d have to make the call.

@Imadethisupwithnoforethought I think the intent is to derive humor from the last two people being severely incompatible with each other, rather than making her the hero.

@Esedess I don’t think incest is just a socially-constructed moral?

@fluthernutter Genetically?

Not me, I am past men-o-pause and still pausing from men. lol
I’ll whip us up a yummy little wild dinner and go hunting for fields of marijuana, opium poppies and magic mushrooms, then we’ll raid a beehive and star gaze. Good enough, let the animals have the planet back minus the human animal.

Interesting turn of events in episode 3 (no spoilers!). I have to say it was well-executed, both as a plot development point and as a punchline.