How many times have you heard this, when discussing the possibility of nuclear war, and how to deal with its aftermath:
"Huh. If nuclear war breaks out, I hope my house is Ground Zero."
I think this is classic psychology: everyone wants to be a winner. Everyone wants his own path to be the "smartest" or "best" path. If a person can't prep, then he promotes the idea that prepping is for losers. If a person is prepped to the max, he teaches that everyone should prep. In each case, it makes the person in question a "winner" by being the ideal.
Just remember it's the materialists and pagans who think a sudden, unprovided death is any kind of a blessing. People even debate about whether or not they'd want to be told if they were terminally ill! For a Catholic, that's insane. In the Litany of the Saints, one of the lines is, "From a sudden and unprovided death, Deliver us, O Lord". Catholics want as much time as possible, especially when death is near, to prepare our souls better to meet our Judge. So with this in mind, I think we can't join those negative, fatalist naysayers who grunt, "If nuclear war happens, I just hope my house is Ground Zero so I'm vaporized in a millisecond." Sure, if this life is all there is, then of course! Suffering has no meaning. Why suffer? Why not just cease to exist in the most quick and painless manner? Unfortunately for them, we don't cease to exist. And if we are part of the Mystical Body of Christ, suffering has meaning. We go on to the next life, where we are judged by Our Lord on the final state of our soul in THIS life.
Not to mention it's bad form to be more negative than the various survivalists and preppers who DO have the will to survive and rebuild after a nuclear war, MOST of whom don't have the Faith. So THEY have the desire and will to live on, but we Catholics want to throw in the towel? What, is it because it sounds so difficult and suffering is involved? How pathetic is that! Our Master went through his passion and death for us, but we shrink at the thought of suffering? We don't want our family (Catholics) to be part of those building up a new world? I don't think Jesus Christ would be proud of this batch of Christians.
I think we want as high a percentage of Catholics among those survivors as possible.
Also, some people think that nuclear war would be "the end of the world" or "the apocalypse". Again that is false. All we're looking at is a Chastisement, but we Catholics believe in a Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and a peaceful age of Mary, which will eventually be followed by a worse collapse into decadence, and then the ANTICHRIST who will be a man. It is only after the Antichrist that the world can END.