Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule of The Week: The Dead
By Liam O'Leary
On last night’s Fear The Walking Dead, The Group learned that there’s a way you handle you the dead in a zombie apocalypse, and a way you DON’T.
The key feature of the zombie apocalypse will be (SURPRISE!!!), zombies. For whatever reason, the dead are not staying dead, and instead, wandering around EATING PEOPLE; Suffice it to say, things are bad.
Of course, while watching a neighbor, friend, or loved one turn into such an ungodly abomination is never easy, the fact remains, the undead are not friendly, and they are not safe to be around, so, it’s imperative that you deal with them.
Rule #6: You get bitten, you get shot.
[Now, a disclaimer, I know there’s a chance you could save someone bitten by a zombie if you quickly sever the infected area. This is more of a general rule, or for circumstances where zombie bites, regardless, cause infection. There, disclaimer over.]
Sad as it is, when someone dies, we must accept it: Death is a natural and inevitable part of life.
But, if that death is zombie-related, we can’t simply bury them and be done with it, because, obviously, before too long, they will simply get up and start trying to eat everyone in sight!
With that in mind, you need to ensure that that doesn’t happen.
Brutal though it may be, you need to put down those who’ve been bitten by a zombie before they have a chance to turn. How you go about that is entirely your business.
Of course, all of you already know this, I would imagine. To most of you, this is like me telling you to breathe.
“Duh.” You might say to yourself. I expected this.
However, what we saw a lot of in last night’s episode were people finding terrible ways to deal with people who either were becoming zombies, or already were zombies.
Top of that list? Keeping zombies. Seriously.
I have a whole rule dedicated to this, so, I’ll keep it brief here, but, suffice to say, keeping zombies is, hands down, the stupidest thing a person could ever do in a zombie apocalypse.
Now, we also saw another problem with how people were treating the infected, and, frankly, a more disturbing one: Revering the undead.
You can remember and should remember your friends and loved ones who die by the hands of zombies, that’s fine, but, you shouldn’t be treating their shambling corpse as anything more than what it is: The corpse of a loved one. Not your loved one, not some supernatural manifestation of them, not some new version of them, just a corpse, a shell of someone you once cared about. That also wants to eat you.
The best thing, the only thing, you can do for those who’ve become infected is to stop them from turning.
Now, by all means, give them all due deference, but, letting them become the undead is a fate worse than death, and a threat to you and anyone else around you.
Nobody wants to be a walking corpse, so, you shouldn’t let them become one.
Don’t let your friends or loved ones become zombies. Ever.
And that is our lesson for today. If you like this and want to find out more rules to survive the zombie apocalypse, why not pick up a copy of my book, The Rules: A Guide To Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse! You can get it on Kindle here and on iTunes here!