If you caught the Krieger Strain of HMHVV,, how would you cope? Options

[Austere Emancipa...]

Assume you're a mundane human, if necessary, and of the same approximate social status in the year 2063 as you are now. Also assume that you actually become a ghoul with 3 or more successes on the Third Stage Infection test.

Suicide/fall into catatonia/etc includes any conscious or sub-conscious choice which would put you out of the living-business quickly and for good. Could also be called "not coping".

Shutting down your mind means exactly that, simply being incapable of any coherent thought. Also includes any extremely severe, but not completely disabling, psychological disorder.

Procuring flesh violently basically means killing people and eating them -- hunting down street junkies for example. Procuring flesh non-violently means eating corpses in the death of which you did not assist -- stealing them from morgues or something.

Becoming an Evil Monster basically means you permanently "switch alignment to Evil", ie you are thereafter mostly interested in causing anyone and everyone as much pain and suffering as possible. This doesn't mean amoral, but totally immoral -- doing everything which the metahuman society does not morally approve of.

Staying (relatively) sane is just that. It might include changing some of your moral views, or getting rid of them ("partial amorality"), but you would retain capability for coherent thought, perhaps some sense of empathy, and a sense of ethics that at least partially matches that of the general metahuman society and the pre-ghoul you.