utterly alone.
Lots of science fiction dealing with that.
Clarke's short story "the Awakening", where the last man awakens to find the future civilization of cockroaches, and promptly dies.
I also remembered a goosebumps pocketbook (remember those?
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They were a craze here when I was in elementary), about a girl who makes a wish and wishes everyone but herself to disappear.a hair-raising thought.
But really, would it be really that horrible. I've always felt that man was totally insignificant. Just imagine the universe, multiply that by several orders of eternity, and man is more insignificant than
nothingness.
So, who'd weep for mankind's disappearance?
@Dan:
provided we take afterlife into consideration, regarding atheists and believers pushing the button, there is also one difference:
Atheists and agnostics, imo, would avoid pushing the button, because they do not know what happens afterwards. For atheists, they become nothing. For Agnostics, they are not sure if there is a heaven. The threat of Oblivion,
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, is not something a soul can trifle with.
Religious people, on the other hand, will more likely push the button. Fanatics, particularly will believe that they are not really depriving people of their lives, they are just expediting their return to heaven.