A Self-Aware Zombie Epidemic

[Domindart]

I would eat.. Find and coerce people into a dark alley and satisfy my needs!

[m ellis allen]

[Tater Raider]

I would eat.. Find and coerce people into a dark alley and satisfy my needs!

You guys do know that if you are aware and able to decide to eat or not then we are talking cannibalism which is illegal just about everywhere. You could move into an area that has cannibal tribes to get back to the legal side of things but by-and-large you are screwed due to that whole "we don't discuss breaking the law" thing here... Also, murder is right out.

[Silverbug]

I'd become a mortician, offer cheap rates.

[Ike]

I love this site.

Yeah.
We're not like, paranoid or anything

It's not "Are you paranoid?", it's "Are you paranoid enough?".

Haha makes me think of X-files

[RickOShea]

I love this site.

Yeah.
We're not like, paranoid or anything

It's not "Are you paranoid?", it's "Are you paranoid enough?".

Haha makes me think of X-files

IIRC, I think it was Tom Sizemore in Strange Days.

[Tater Raider]

I love this site.

Yeah.
We're not like, paranoid or anything

It's not "Are you paranoid?", it's "Are you paranoid enough?".

Haha makes me think of X-files

IIRC, I think it was Tom Sizemore in Strange Days.

Both work.

[RickOShea]

You guys do know that if you are aware and able to decide to eat or not then we are talking cannibalism which is illegal just about everywhere. You could move into an area that has cannibal tribes to get back to the legal side of things but by-and-large you are screwed due to that whole "we don't discuss breaking the law" thing here... Also, murder is right out.

Hey, don't push your "moral standards" on me, Pal. Just because I was born.... err..... turned, into a flesh-eating ghoul, doesn't mean you have the right to belittle and besmirch my "alternative life-style".

[Tater Raider]

You guys do know that if you are aware and able to decide to eat or not then we are talking cannibalism which is illegal just about everywhere. You could move into an area that has cannibal tribes to get back to the legal side of things but by-and-large you are screwed due to that whole "we don't discuss breaking the law" thing here... Also, murder is right out.

Hey, don't push your "moral standards" on me, Pal. Just because I was born.... err..... turned, into a flesh-eating ghoul, doesn't mean you have the right to belittle and besmirch my "alternative life-style".

That will teach me to eat Ice Cream while surfing ZS. Poor monitor.

[Mr. E. Monkey]

I would eat.. Find and coerce people into a dark alley and satisfy my needs!

You guys do know that if you are aware and able to decide to eat or not then we are talking cannibalism which is illegal just about everywhere. You could move into an area that has cannibal tribes to get back to the legal side of things but by-and-large you are screwed due to that whole "we don't discuss breaking the law" thing here... Also, murder is right out.

It was self-defense.

[tehpathogen]

I would start eating people, only when I needed to. and I would probably be grateful I no longer need to buy groceries (unless they start selling cannedman or jerkjerky) Gotta love capitalism.

oh u know someone's gonna capitalize on the cannedman deal... lol
yeah if we were self aware it wouldn't be as apocolyptic as if we were just surviving on instinct.

[callista]

Exactly! I think it would cause a lot of problems, but I doubt it would cause the breakdown of civilization.

--Most people can survive for a week without food without ill effects beyond comfort issues (and the need to start eating again slowly).

--Enough people die naturally to make it feasible to share out these bodies to the newly-turned zombies for a short time.

--We have the ability to pretty much replicate human tissue now; all we need is to do it on a large scale. Until then, nutritional supplements and hamburger should work just fine.

The biggest problems in a self-aware zombie epidemic wouldn't be the zombies--it would be the societal restructuring necessary! People are very sentimentally attached to the bodies of their relatives, and it would take some doing to persuade them that the dead are best used to sustain the (un)living in this situation. There would be some people willing to commit homicide over this--either newly-turned zombies wiling to kill and eat people, or people who've seen too many zombie movies and think that this means the self-aware zombies are fair game for shooting.

A lot of the fun of zombies is the idea that they're people you can shoot in good conscience, because they're too far gone to be truly people anymore; and if you're a zombie yourself, you can't help but eat brains. The idea of essentially being free to kill whoever you want is pretty attractive to people who have been cut off in traffic, double-billed by the doctor, or mistreated by an inept boss.... until, that is, we actually think about it, and realize that killing people is kind of a dick move. Zombies solve that problem, because they're not people anymore.

[forthewolf]

So, if we're talking Ugly Americans. Would we be forced to attend Zombies Anonymous? Or death certificates?

[TuRkEyBlo0d]

I would turn myself in to scientists to operate on me for some kind of vaccine or cure to the virus or anything that stems from the virus.

[Mr. Denver]

There was a comic book series that dealt with that kinda. The zombies in it though were not cannibalistic. They were themselves, just dead and slowly rotting away. The series is called "Dead Eyes Open". Interesting and refreshing take on the whole zombie thing. You might want to read it for ideas/insights.

[Spiffums]

I for one welcome our new zombie overlords. Also, let's see if we can get some fun in this apocalypse. Glee does Thriller.

Once everyone's turned, it's the new normal.

Kinda seems like real life now doesn't it.

[Hanzo]

I'm thinking zombies form their own country and start farming humans.

[GH0STSHAD0W]

Personally, wire my jaw shut (but have a unlocking mechanism), start working on substitutes (soy people? Lol) and if push comes to shove find a food source (if its a PAW situation, hunt raider/ bandit types)

Now you said flesh is the only edible for infected? Then technically wouldnt a corpse or other infected, work as well as a regular people?

[MacAttack]

Move to California where minor eating disorders like this are common and expected of the 'better half' of society.

Besides with so many undocumented aliens I would have quite a sizable herd to graze on before anyone would notice.

Anonymously announce this on online places like facebook and craigs list in order to draw even more new zombies to the area so I have a better chance of hiding in the crowd.



We are discussing a book plot right? Not something I would do right now, for real. Right?

[werepig]

I love this site.

I know right!!