20 Fun Ways Humanity Might Actually Go Extinct

There are two types of people in this world: Those planning for an ordinary, individual death, and those who want to take everyone else out with them. They don’t necessarily want to bring about the apocalypse themselves, mind you. But if they have to go, everyone else better be going, too. You could say they’ve got a bad case of existential FOMO.

Luckily for them, there are so many ways the world could end. There’s all the normal ways that we’re all worried about every second of every day, of course: global pandemic, nuclear war, regular war, etc. But there are a ton of ways the world could end quite literally any second that you’ve probably never even considered. That’s fun, right?

To give us all a wildly entertaining panic attack, user SmokoMan asked r/AskReddit, “What is the craziest legitimate reason the human race could be completely wiped out?” and nothing but death and destruction followed.