Fast or slow zombies?

[soundguy]

of all the zombie styles.. I really tend to like the 'infected' living person the most, as it could be the most real. IE.. you could have a disease that makes you go crazy.. but doesn't kill you off fast.. yet remains contagious from bites, etc.. and the crazy person might survive days, weeks, months or a year or more.. insane.. but 'rabid' .. still eating, drinking and sleeping.. etc.

lack of health care and personal grooming and other issues and exposure would eventually get them.. so their lifespan would be limited.. can't see one lasting mor ethan a year or so... would explain why they don't bloat up and rott or decay and dry up like every other corpse that gets left out inthe wild. the 'dead' zombies realy should only pose a threat for a month or so at most.. and deffinately not make it past a real cold or real hot season.

insect predation alone should handle alot of it.

I did see one style where a fungus took over your body at the moment of clinical death and reanimated you.. heart started beating again.. and you lost higher brain function.. etc.. you still slowly died from lack of care.. but it was more like the infected living vs the truly re-animate dead.. which.. is so much less real and all but totally impossible..

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of all the zombie styles.. I really tend to like the 'infected' living person the most, as it could be the most real. IE.. you could have a disease that makes you go crazy.. but doesn't kill you off fast.. yet remains contagious from bites, etc.. and the crazy person might survive days, weeks, months or a year or more.. insane.. but 'rabid' .. still eating, drinking and sleeping.. etc.

lack of health care and personal grooming and other issues and exposure would eventually get them.. so their lifespan would be limited.. can't see one lasting mor ethan a year or so... would explain why they don't bloat up and rott or decay and dry up like every other corpse that gets left out inthe wild. the 'dead' zombies realy should only pose a threat for a month or so at most.. and deffinately not make it past a real cold or real hot season.

insect predation alone should handle alot of it.

I did see one style where a fungus took over your body at the moment of clinical death and reanimated you.. heart started beating again.. and you lost higher brain function.. etc.. you still slowly died from lack of care.. but it was more like the infected living vs the truly re-animate dead.. which.. is so much less real and all but totally impossible..