Questions About Zombies

[J. J. Hunsecker]

1. Why are zombies stronger than the living? In most modern zombie movies, the zombies have the strength to tear a person apart. Wouldn't the zombie's muscles have atrophied since they've been dead for some time? Therefore they should be much weaker than any normal living human, and not much of a threat.

2. Why do zombies hunger for human flesh or brains? I mean, if you weren't a cannibal before you went into your grave, why would you become one if you were re-animated with life? What would cause the sudden hunger for your fellow man? Why don't they hunger for chickens, or house pets instead? Why no vegetables or snack foods either? Wouldn't you be hungry for the same types of foods you desired before you died?

3. If they are not living, but rather the "living dead," why would they have hunger pains anyway? Can they digest food? Do they have other urges too, like a need for sleep?

4. If a zombie continues to "live" will it still decompose? Even though it is re-animated, it is still considered dead. Since many of them rose from graves (and how could they have broken their way out of wooden coffins? see first question), that means they were in a state of decomposition. Wouldn't that continue, now that they were the walking dead? If so, that mean victims just need to wait it out and eventually most zombies would crumble into piles of dust.