[Gem]

Zombie-itis (contagious zombification) is a contentious ethical dilemma when it comes to killing the afflicted. I mean, we don't kill people because they are sick. The principle that overrides the ethic of caring for the infirm in the case of Zombies takes on 3 primary premises: 1) They are supposed to be ead; 2) They are suffering and it's kindest to euthanise; and 3) Zombies are a perversion of humanity - the worst aspect of ourselves - and the worst of us is 'evil'.


In the show "The Walking dead", much effort is expended not only saving people from zombies, but also saving people from becoming zombies(by killing the bitten). Indeed, given a choice between death and zombiefication, most would prefer death, because becoming sub-human is a fate worse that anything else. Zombification thus represents hell. It is a particular kind of death where a good person is re-born as a monster. To save the human we kill them before they turn into a monster under a somewhat twisted vision of heaven, which is not paraside per-se, but one which is quite simply not hell. After all, anything else is better than hell.