Will You Be Able to Kill Your Zombie Loved One?

@bingskee (5234)
Philippines
November 2, 2011 8:43am CST
The question just popped while watching The Walking Dead with my children this afternoon. I asked "What if I suddenly become a zombie, will you be able to kill me?" They said yes without batting an eyelash. It is survival, they said. I do not know it if it is just me being emotional but I will truly find it difficult to execute the act of killing a loved one. I know this could even kill me in such a situation. Will you be able to kill a zombie loved one that easy?
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@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
3 Nov 11
Well for the sake of this make believe scenario, if a zombie did exist, then the only way to eliminate then is to kill them. Now, we all know that this will never happen, so the answer should be very easy, kill them without batting an eye like your children said. In real life, that is a major hard decision to make.
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
hello, inertia. indeed it is a tough decision to make. as to how serious they were, i don't know. or maybe because they know it is impossible to happen. @ alvaro - easier said than done as some say.
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• Mexico
3 Nov 11
Hi inertia: I think you are right. It's so much easier to say kill them! because we are talking about a fictional scenario but if this would be truth it would be really difficult, even if it's a zombie to kill someone that has the body of the person you love. ALVARO
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@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
4 Nov 11
Well, I will respond to starsailover first. I do understand that if it were real and not fictional, it would be a very hard choice to make. But thinking like a rational human, it is impossible. Now, bingskee, I just feel that it is a simple answer because it is impossible and it could never really happen in real life. So, on this discussion, we could just have some fun with it.
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
3 Nov 11
LOL! But you're not you anymore if you are a zombie. So, I guess your kids are right to kill you in order to survive. Maybe if I turned into a zombie one day, I would ask my kids to kill me as well cause I definitely do not want to be a zombie forever.
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
that is if the zombie me still have time to plead ha ha haven't seen one that pleads.
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
5 Nov 11
You could be the first.
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
7 Nov 11
Looks like we're save after all, bingskee. There's a zombie killer in town.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Nov 11
We have already determined that I would only last about 10 seconds around zombies, so I probably wouldn't ever get the opportunity to find out!
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
6 Nov 11
It was some silly Facebook quiz about how long I would survive a zombie attack.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
6 Nov 11
oh, i see.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
4 Nov 11
why dawnald? what do you mean lasting only about 10 secs around zombies?
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@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
4 Nov 11
You sound like a loving mother. If I had children, I'd probably have a hardER time answering this question. But I think, with much difficulty, I will be able to.... for survival.
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
4 Nov 11
oh, thank you. it really is a tough one to face. some people can be frozen with fear, and love for the zombie loved one. some because of fear also can kill without thinking.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
6 Nov 11
ha ha poor spider.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
5 Nov 11
Oh yes, like how some of the soldiers are trained... and how I become when I see a spider... (sorry spider).
@r3jcorp (1382)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
Of course, I will kill him. If he is on his right mind, I guess he will also plead to kill his body. Anyway, a zoombie in the body of your loved one it not your real loved one. And his soul could be suffering too much by seeing his body killing people. He wouldn't want to live as a zombie anyway.
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@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
3 Nov 11
That's what I feel as well. I definitely do not want to be a zombie so I would want to be killed if I turned into one.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
i have in my mind now a zombie pleading to be killed ha ha ha then comes the question, are you really going to do it when a zombie loved one pleads? @ Jlyn - i would want to be killed, too, if i am affected with the virus.
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
7 Nov 11
@dupremo But I thought you only fight aliens.
• United States
2 Nov 11
Funny you should have a topic like this..I ask my boyfriend this all the time. He always says that if I were a zombie that would kill him, he would shoot me even though he loves me a lot. But I don't think I would be able to kill him if he were a zombie =/ Maybe if I was actually in that situation I would be able to if my life depended on it and if he's a zombie then he's really not the same guy I love. I always tell him that I'd try to make him a vegetarian zombie that was nice lol
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
hello, courtknee. the topic just popped from the mind. though i am not a believer of zombies, thought it would be something to discuss about. there are similar situations, other than that of the zombies, that could challenge our decisions with the loved ones.
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
2 Nov 11
I think if you think of them as loved ones it makes the choice hard. But if you realize that it really isn't your loved one anymore then it makes the choice a little easier. It is about survival. If you want to survive you have to take out those who are trying to kill you. Once they become a zombie they are no longer family, they are the enemy.
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• Japan
3 Nov 11
I would but before I kill him,I'd say ";I love you" then shoot him in the head. :)
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
4 Nov 11
that is sweet. but the zombie will never ever realize it, i think.
• Mexico
3 Nov 11
Hi bingskee: I don't think if I would be able to kill but if I need to do, I mean if it's my life or a zombie I would do this. I don't know too much about zombies but as far as I know they are not the persons they were when they were human beings anymore so it's not time for mercy ALVARO
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
this is just fiction, alvaro. the movies say they are not anymore on the right frame of mind as they are affected by the virus.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
3 Nov 11
Dear Ms Bingskee Killing is not that easy and for me it is quite more difficult. But still I am not quite sure when it comes to the situation you mention. But I have one thought or question as always Do the Zombies have to be Cruel and need be killed? Cant they be one exception - a cute and lovable Zombie
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
ha ha ha that is so funny, thesids! a cute and lovable zombie? what would it look like? tell me..
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
3 Nov 11
I don't think that will be easy. To kill someone is difficult and not to mention about our love one, it will be more difficult. Unless we are heartless and have no feeling. Even when we know that our love one has turn into zombie, I don't think we will be able to kill them without think twice. If that happen to me, I will probably find a way to lock my love one up and without needed to kill my love one.
@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
When i have discern that my love one is really a zombie, i wouldn't hesitate to kill him/her. Just as your children have said, it's survival.
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
we all have been trained to fight for survival but not to kill for survival.
@WakeUpKitty (8691)
• Netherlands
2 Nov 11
I don't know if you kill that easy, killing is never easy. But you will since in the end you fear your own life the most and you will discover that your beloved one is not existing anymore. That zombie one is not the one you knew but just exists in your mind.
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
3 Nov 11
it would not be easy i bet. but given a situation where my life would be in danger, i would probably change my mind but it would not be easy.
@ralphs (209)
• Philippines
4 Nov 11
yes of course i will kill even if she is my mother or he is my father of he is my brother and sister, yes its a survival so you need to kill someone who want to kill you or eat your brain and body, you know some situations like this you must think because if you kill someone maybe it will save more people, yes its difficult to execute your love-ones and by your own hands it will break your heart but you need to do it so you will not be infected. :)
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@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
4 Nov 11
accepting that one can do nothing in such a situation is good. we're lucky this is not real and we don't have to worry about it so much.