Just got around to watching this - only watched the first episode.
Here's my poser: why are the partially departed kept alive?
Apart from families deep affection for their reanimated departed, is there any reason for the government to keep these 'undead' alive / animated, especially considering the cost of the medicine?
Hmmm yeah, I don't think it was explained on the show.
Are the medicines free? If not, I guess it's good business?
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Because it's the humane thing to do? Also, what government wouldn't want to know the secret to immortality? It sure is an interesting topic. I can see there's much more than meets the eye about Halperin & Weston.
shareThanks for the comments.
Immortality doesn't really apply here though as these 'sufferers' don't really exist - they can't eat or drink.
Nevertheless, I reckon there is some connection to scientists seeking to prolonging the human lifespan.
They don't exist? Because they don't eat or drink? Neither does a table.
shareThey are not alive. Zombies are never alive, they are animated - until they decay away. They are not "partially deceased". They are fully deceased, and would be rotting.
shareYou mean as opposed to mowing them down indiscriminately? I don't think that'd go over well. This is a very realistic response to the zombie epidemic. People aren't going to part with their loved ones that easily. Your draconian solution would result in an uprising of a different nature.
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the responses to this question are forgetting the fact that all of the rotters were already dead before they became rotters. their families had already grieved for their loss. keeping them alive could be considered less humane, actually. not more. plus the fact that if the zombies miss their meds they are likely to become dangerous again.
but, yeah, in actual fact surely they would all be disposed of rather than reintegrated into the community.
anyway, the show has a certain dry humour and i get the impression that it's making fun of (amongst other things) UK government's PC and at times insane policies.
ummm replace zombies with immigrants. muslims. whatever. "multiculturism. respect others ways of life" and all that
anyway
i wanna know how they all got out from their graves
People grieved for them... and then they came back to life. Nobody is going to be okay with the government just mowing down their reborn loved ones. If you do that, they will riot.
This is a very common trope in zombie shows & movies. You see it all the time. It was in The Walking Dead more than once, and it's the subject of an new movie coming out called Maggie. Even if their loved ones are ravenous monsters people still can't just let go and let them die.
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Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame.
"Nobody is going to be okay with the government just mowing down their reborn loved ones. If you do that, they will riot."
they weren't on holiday. or missing. they came back from the dead and ate people's brains.
"Even if their loved ones are ravenous monsters people still can't just let go and let them die. "
e.g the guvnor in the TWD. didn't want to let his daughter go. nobody else, though, had a problem with killing her. because they know what a danger it is to the fabric of society and all of their lives.
even if rehabilitation were seriously considered, and you were so distraught with grief that you wanted it, so you could have your long lost loved one back in your arms, nobody else would be ok with it.
a la TWD, with a barn full of zombies, kept secret because it's *beep* insane and he knew that everyone else would rightfully want to destroy them all
As if The Governor is the only example of that in the show. You see that with pretty much everybody. You saw it with Hershel and all the undead, not just his friends. You saw it with Lennie James' character and his wife. You see it in Romero films, zomcoms, and serials. You see it in practically all zombie media. Why? Because it's the most basic reaction that almost everybody would have.
It doesn't matter that everyone else in the world would be in favor of killing your undead sister. They would be. But everyone in the world would be hotly against killing their undead sister. That's how the revolution happens. You try to kill of everybody's family members, they tend to get a little peeved.
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Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame.