The document is a worksheet selecting four individuals who would survive an epidemic and establishing why. It chooses a doctor to maintain health, a scientist to handle environmental issues, a psychology professor to take a leadership role and counsel, and a lawyer to set laws for the new civilization. Others are excluded: a priest for potential conflict, drug-addicted hippies as a nuisance, a pregnant woman as weak, a mentally unstable soldier as a risk, an elderly woman for health complications, a disabled person for inability, and a lazy welfare dependent.

1. WORKSHEET: Who Will Survive
Date: June 11, 2014
Name: Liang, Wu Signature: Liang, Wu
Name: Dozier, Jeff Signature: Jeffrey K. Dozier
Which four individuals should stay and survive, AND WHY:
Person: Doctor (male, 28)
Reason for staying: He can keep up the health of the group
Person: Scientist (male, 30)
Reason for staying: Helps with environmental issues, handles greenhouse
Person: Professor (female, 24) –majored in psychology
Reason for staying: Takes up the leader position, is good at counseling
Person: Lawyer (female, 26)
Reason for staying: Sets up the law and civilization of the new world after the epidemic ends
Why were the others left to die?
Person: Priest
Reason for sacrificing: Religion tends to cause more conflict than help, more need for fact than faith
Person: Married couple who are hippies and drug addicts
Reason for sacrificing: Addicted to drugs, eats all the food, a nuisance in general
Person: Single pregnant lady with a 5 year old girl
Reason for sacrificing: weak, more susceptible to sickness
Person: Army officer who has mental instability of some sort but is useful nonetheless
Reason for sacrificing: the mental instability cause too much of a risk
Person: An elderly woman
Reason for sacrificing: too old, too possible complications
Person: A disabled person
Reason for sacrificing: they are disabled, they is at least one important thing they probably cannot do
Person: Lazy welfare dependent
Reason for sacrificing: they are lazy