How many "End of the worlds" have you lived though? I've made it though nine

[MrScorpio]

1. Oct 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis

2. Nov 1963 - JFK Assassination (I read somewhere once that we were planned to go nuclear against whatever country that might had been behind it)

3. 1968 - The whole year

4. 1975 - Vietnam unites (The idea was that SE Asia was going to fall like dominoes to the Communists. Never happened)

5. 1981-1989 Two Reagan terms (You have no idea how many scares we had)

6. 1991 - First Gulf War (Had Iraq put chemicals in those SCUDs they dropped on Israel, Israel would have responded with nukes)

7. 1 Jan 2000 - (Y2K Bug Armageddon)

8. 9/11 (Well, that was kind of the end off the rule of law. Which is almost like the end of the world)

9. 2008 Financial Meltdown (Imagine if Bush had followed his "Free Market" instincts and sat on his fat ass and done nothing)

10. 2012 - ???????

[HopeHoops]

1. Just one - the Great Tequila Tragedy of '85

Man was that a rough three-day hangover!

[kedrys]

2. I was born in '61, so

my list would be the same as yours. Thank you for the perspective.

[begin_within]

3. All of yours plus the Harmonic Convergence of 1989

[velvet]

4. All the above

Plus most of the 1950s when The Bomb was a shadow on everyone's psyche. I remember having nightmares about it.

Plus the time that guy dumped me in '05.

This is great, thank you, I never realised I was so resilient.