Are zombies half dead or fully dead?

[Col. Burton]

I was arguing with my firends on facebook about if zombies were half dead or fully dead.
Here's some chat.

Me: technically zombies aren't living.
Brandon: they're dead and moving.
Me: they are just animated.
Brandon: they're half dead.
Me: DEAD ANIMATED CREATURES, NOT LIVING.
Hailey: half loving dead
Me: im pretty sure chopped off lizard's tails are dead, but they still move, you guys are silly.
Brandon: full dead people can't move, if you're a zombie, you are half dead because you can move.
Me: but if you are not conscious of you being half dead then you aren't alive i the first place
Brandon: zombies
Me: zombies are not conscious, they are sleepwalking animated creatures of dead human flesh.
Hailey: then how do they know where they're going, and what they're eating?
Me: they use their senses. they are unconscious. they use their sen- why the forget are we arguing about if zombies are living or not.
Hailey: cuz we loving are xD
Me: they use their senses in their brain, but the rest is either off or missing.
Hailey: and they are conscious.

So, are zombies half dead or fully dead? Are they conscious of what they are doing? When will I stop asking question?

 /discuss

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[Tokthree]

Depends entirely on which zombie lore you use.
It can be either

[Tingalz]

depends on what kind of zombie you're talking about

[masterockets]

Reanimated bodies with a taste for flesh
fully dead would imply that all organs have stopped and there is no blood, thus a walking shell
half dead would imply a still breathing cannibal
IMO

[Jairo]

redeads
reanimated dead

l4d zombs aren't dead
just mutated

killing floor zombs are artificial
so

I dunno where you're going with this

[Mushroom man]

Zombies are dead in the sense that their organs no longer function. Though, there would in most cases be some sort of living thing that is controlling it, so the body is dead, and the parasite is alive. But with my more realistic interpretation of zombies using cordyceps, both the parasite and the body are alive.

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[Extrude]

I think they are still alive. If you shoot a zombie in the head it bleeds, and that wouldn't happen if your heart wasn't pumping blood.

[Col. Burton]

Infected zombies.

This is the picture my friend Brandon sent me during the conversation.

[masterockets]

Infected zombies.

Zombies are dead in the sense that their organs no longer function. Though, there would in most cases be some sort of living thing that is controlling it, so the body is dead, and the parasite is alive.

I guess this answers it?

[Col. Burton]

Zombies are dead in the sense that their organs no longer function. Though, there would in most cases be some sort of living thing that is controlling it,

So if the thing controlling it is alive then that means the body is only alive if the parasite inside of it controlling it.

[Jairo]

So if the thing controlling it is alive then that means the body is only alive if the parasite inside of it controlling it.

zelda bosses from twilight princess were taken over by parasites but still were alive
I guess it all depends?

[Katamari007]

undead





duh

[Mushroom man]

undead





duh

That made me think of the original voodoo zombies. They are in fact dead.

[Col. Burton]

So, the body is only "alive" if it is being controlled by a parasite, and therefore is dead in the first place and is just animated by some other being?