Writer's Block

The Undead

With Halloween on the horizon, burning questions about the undead need to be answered: Can being a zombie be considered suffering?First question listed was submitted by destynnee. (Follow-up questions, if any, may have been added by LiveJournal.)

cosmo1300 Writer's Block: The Undead
 
fayanora Writer's Block: The Undead
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captainculinary Writer's Block: The Undead
Well, technically, I would say no.
Although, there are no known and proven facts helping my case here.

Zombies are a race of undead humans or genetically mutated humans or other species, depending
 
johnoswords Writer's Block: The Undead



My bigest fear is Zombies I fear them so much....NO the question is do you have a Zombie plan????

Ima not telling you mine.... because then if you live near me and you use my Zombie plan then my p

 
pollyh Writer's Block: The Undead
Absolutely!! If you were a zombie and all you ever thought about was eating flesh and nothing else, and walking that trademark walk, it would defeat the purpose of being alive.
 
fatzferdinand Writer's Block: The Undead
i need to destress. i swear at the rate that i'm typing out all this, there is a raging army of acne germs on my forehead. and they're gonna declare war. (read: MAJOR BREAKOUT)
now that you mention it
 
phrixus_nix Writer's Block: The Undead
I guess it depends on what type of zombie you are talking about. I think anything "alive", the undead included have feelings. If the person that the zombie had taken over or whatever is stil
 
stoneduck Writer's Block: The Undead
Ok i am going to play devil's advocate here. Suffering implies an infliction of some sort or infliction of feeling. I think there is some small amount of feeling there, otherwise t
 
freetheverse Writer's Block: The Undead
No, zombies have lost all of their connections with the state of humanness and living, other than human-esque form.  They run on one and only one primal instinct; and that is to feed.  Their
 
talia_kopach Writer's Block: The Undead
No. Zombies don't feel or care like people do. This is hardly a burning question, as it's so easy to be answered.
 
no_confessions Writer's Block: The Undead



I don't think so... I mean- if you go with the classic idea of a zombie... they're dead, but reanimated. They don't feel pain, they're run by the most basic intincts... which is to feed. Who they were

 
tjlyn92 Writer's Block: The Undead
Yes. because zombies have died gone away from the world and come back.

 
sega_tiger Колонка автора: Ожившие
 Нас самом деле зомби вполне реальны.
Если абстрагироваться от гниющей плоти и жажды мозгов, то остаётся бездушное и бездуховное человекообразное существо, которое
 
chaselemonde Writer's Block: The Undead
It depends on the school of thought. Some show zombies as being nothing more than corpses reanimated by viral/chemical infection, in which case brain activity is a null, therefore no suffering can be
 
kirenaaz Writer's Block: The Undead
Can something without a mind suffer? Science gives an emphatic no where some religions have allowances for suffering where there is no mind even possible. Since we are not considering zombies create
 
dbenarye Writer's Block: The Undead

Zombies are happy.
They don't have to live.
 
baneofshadow Writer's Block: The Undead
it depends, i think. if you are the undead, and you
know it(ex. kikyo), then, yeah, you suffer, 'cause you know
you've already died and now you're an intruder in the world of the
living, someone who
 
endoris Writer's Block: The Undead


The undead naturally long for something. Essentially, they have no innate purpose other than to:
1 - Feed
2 - Attempt to become more human.

But in attempting to achieve these goals, the undead cannot do
 
orlitza2000 Writer's Block: The Undead
I'm gonna have to go with no. I don't think zombies suffer. I think humans who are in the zombie-fication process suffer, horribly so in some cases, but not zombies themselves. They're dead. They don'