I think a key thing about zombies is that they're dead. And often that they are gorily, messily dead, decaying, with worms poking out of their ears and all the rest of it. A resurrected dead person might look like a perfectly spry, healthy 20-year-old in a business suit. BSG, for example, was full of resurrected dead people on this model. But we're not inclined to call them zombies.
I think that if someone did a Zombie March that paralleled a Walk for Breast Cancer, a lot of breast cancer survivors (and relatives of non-survivors) would be offended.
I think that if someone organized a group of made-up zombies to go hang out at a Stroke Survivors conference I was attending, I'd likely burst into tears.
More generally, I think that events like the Zombie March take death lightly. And I think that's great; I think sometimes it's a good thing to take death lightly, to have fun with it.
But if you point the event symbolically at some group of dead people, then you'll be understood as making light of their death, specifically. And, well, their mourners may not take kindly to that.
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I think a key thing about zombies is that they're dead.
And often that they are gorily, messily dead, decaying, with worms poking out of their ears and all the rest of it.
A resurrected dead person might look like a perfectly spry, healthy 20-year-old in a business suit. BSG, for example, was full of resurrected dead people on this model. But we're not inclined to call them zombies.
I think that if someone did a Zombie March that paralleled a Walk for Breast Cancer, a lot of breast cancer survivors (and relatives of non-survivors) would be offended.
I think that if someone organized a group of made-up zombies to go hang out at a Stroke Survivors conference I was attending, I'd likely burst into tears.
More generally, I think that events like the Zombie March take death lightly. And I think that's great; I think sometimes it's a good thing to take death lightly, to have fun with it.
But if you point the event symbolically at some group of dead people, then you'll be understood as making light of their death, specifically. And, well, their mourners may not take kindly to that.