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Originally Posted by Billjr13
Dead is Dead, unless they aint Dead! AAARRRGGGGHHH UNDEAD DEAD.
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COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC - OR MAYBE NOT (Considering the nature of this thread).
If something is DEAD, then it's DEAD - as you suggest. If something is alive, then that something is alive. Although, curiously enough, as Dylan proclaims, "Those not busy being born, are busy dying." That means we are in the process of dying, of becoming dead.
You can't compliment your new girlfriend, for example, by saying this: "You look remarkably undead," even if it's true that you are complimenting how "alive" she is and how exciting you find her. Perhaps, in this case it would be safer to say this: "You look remarkably alive." However, never say this at a funeral service or to an elderly woman.
Dead people are often compared with insentient things. For example: "She's as dead as a doornail." A doornail was never alive and ambulatory, unlike a zombie that has seen better days.
A zombie by definition CANNOT be "undead," because by not being dead it would then be alive. Although, curiously, a former girlfriend was, indeed, alive and dead
at the same. I know of no other documented case that explores this strange phenomenon.
I hope the above explanation helps.
Don