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Would you keep a loved one who was turned into a zombie?

Asked by mazingerz88 (29261points) August 23rd, 2011

In the zombie comedy movie, Shaun of the Dead, the end scene showed the protagonist playing a video game with his zombie friend who he has tied up by the neck. If someone you love deeply became a zombie, how would you deal with it?

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FutureMemory's avatar

Yo! Unannounced movie spoilers are no fun =/

stardust's avatar

I could put one of those to good use, so yes I would keep them. I can think of a few people my zombie friend could feed on too. I’m a good friend I am!

wundayatta's avatar

Do zombies get sluggish in the cold? I’d keep mine in the deep freeze.

In which movie are the most intelligent zombies and what do they do that other zombies can’t?

Tbag's avatar

She just asked me the same question like two days ago and I answered her sayin’ I would blindly pull the trigger and kill you. Real answer – I would let her bite me in order for me to turn into a zombie so I can be with her.
Other than that it would be SLAUGHTER TIME!

ZEPHYRA's avatar

I would turn into one too and join him.

smilingheart1's avatar

Yes. Life is precious. We humans make a big mistake in thinking that because the brain is no longer the transmitter station, that there is no life there. The spirit is in there, and the ideal is that it should be honoured. I recognize that the essence of what made the person the person isn’t firing up but we can always speak to their spirit and tell them that if they want to go, they can and release them to go. Most times they will for they are feeling “trapped: too. I recognize we are in a tough time in the world with health expenses, time and energy challenges, all of that, but if we start playing the God role, it won’t be long until this all becomes so common place that the next step is the government starts deciding who is worth “keeping” alive and who isn’t. I see that with the aged and infirm as being a very real likelihood in the future.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

First of all, I love that movie! Second of all, yes I would.

mazingerz88's avatar

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Alrighty then! We better buy stocks of companies that sells perfume sprays! Which one makes Glade? : )

Bill_Lumbergh's avatar

Absolutely not! They would stink like hot garbage, and I would have to establish a complex and legal system to feed a zombie’s unquenchable appetite for brains!!

incendiary_dan's avatar

We all have verbal contracts to shoot one another if zombified. No risks.

ddude1116's avatar

In the sense that you keep a pet who’s dying, yeah, totally.

Coloma's avatar

Nah. Unless they were obedient and helpful, Zombie barn boy. lol

jim_ferd's avatar

Not a chance—they wouldn’t be the same and you couldn’t take them anywhere.

Hibernate's avatar

No way. But I wouldn’t ask someone else to kill it, not because I want to do it it’s just because I’d have mercy while doing it.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

I’d keep them as a pet and send them out to eat scumbags!

El_Cadejo's avatar

Id put a bullet in her fuckin head so fast. Id expect her to do the same for me.

TexasDude's avatar

Shoot them.

I told all my friends that if I ever get zombified (highly unlikely) that they are to shoot me in the head immediately.

flutherother's avatar

It is a question of identity, loved one or zombie, they cannot be both. Once I had answered that question I would know what to do.

Unclepepsi's avatar

Nah I’d employ the double-tap

Berserker's avatar

You think he wants to be walkin’ around after he’s dead?! Think about it.

I wouldn’t. When a human becomes a zombie, that person is no longer there. They’re gone. Even if you can teach it to answer the phone or not bite anyone when it’s loose, that person is no longer there. It’s not the loved one you once knew.
Keeping a zombie loved one around would only be a complete mockery of that person’s memory. Watch George Romero’s Survival of the Dead for an interesting exploration on this very idea.

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