No, they will not be killed immediately. Neither will you. High altitude EMP itself will not kill anyone. It's within the few days to weeks of the aftermath that death from lack of clean water, lack of food and the rioting and killing during the looting of stores and visible supply stocks become prevalent. It's when everyone is suffering from video game and smart phone demise.

It's when all the electronic distractions which kept the under forty crowd occupied. It's when tv cartoons can no longer babysit your children.

Within weeks, the decay of countless bodies gives rise to disease with no medicines to treat it.

However, within a few days of the EMP your friends and acquaintances will recall those office chats where you casually mentioned that you were putting aside a few items just in case of a trucker's strike or something. They poo-pooed and teased you. They called you a loonie, Remember?

Well, anyway, you can be positive that THEY will remember, and they will show up at your door with ragged, dirty and hungry family and friends in tow, armed with the will and means to 'negotiate' with you for your dwindling supplies.

You, the ant in the story, has become the envy of grasshoppers. You and your supplies are very attractive to them.

You are a person standing between them and survival.

EMP then SHTF... And now you are faced with TEOTAWAWKI....