# Gurujulp would've wanted his doper family to know... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gurujulp-wouldve-wanted-his-doper-family-to-know/616409 "2012-03-21T14:50:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gurujulp-wouldve-wanted-his-doper-family-to-know/616409/44 "2012-03-21T18:24:11Z")
How terribly sad. [This post of his in the 95% Pandemic thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14881561&postcount=10) just 2 days ago is so heartbreaking now. > [@What would you do after surviving a 95% fatal pandemic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-after-surviving-a-95-fatal-pandemic/616239/10): > > My whole life, I have wished for this sort of an event. > > I always said that if I had the button that would break the vial, or whatever, I would like to think I would do it, even with no guarantees that I would be a survivor. Not to blow up the planet, or kill the biosphere, etc- just to reduce the human population by a huge margin- at least 90%, but more preferably 95%- or even 98-99% still leaves 700,000 people, and seven hundred thousand people isn’t a tiny number, although it is small for the planet. > > Of course, after I became a father, any pretentions that I might risk the kiddos, or even myself as a guardian of those kiddos- became a stupid thing I said as a young adult, immature and stupid. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gurujulp-wouldve-wanted-his-doper-family-to-know/616409)._