Better Dead Than Zed

[Cazza]

I probably couldn't do ending it all. I probably won't tell anyone so they could do it. I'd lock myself in a signed room and wait.

If I'm luck and a cure is found and I unzombify later. Am shot by people clearing the building. Redie from decay or be there forever or maybe breakout.

After I've turned am as good as dead so I wont notice or care.

 

[IllumInaTIma]

I would probably try to help my group as much as I can, now knowing that I'm dead anyway. I'd probably sacrifice myself fending off a horde while they try to escape or something.

 

[SaetonChapelle]

I would do whatever I could to survive, but who says being a zombie is a terrible thing?! Unless we look at some of the original literature where zombies are eating brains in order to prevent the pain of decay....

Ignoring that! I shall embrace my zombie brethren and together we shall shamble along the road of death~

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

I'd clean the wound, take anti-biotics and hope for the best. Maybe quarantine myself. I'd have little reason to just assume that it works like the movies and bite=zombie. No disease in the history of the world has been that infectious or had that high a casualty rate in its victims. The bubonic plague only killed one in three.

If it became clear that I wasn't going to pull through, then I'll probably do the honourable thing.

AIDS has a %100 mortality rate, just thought I'd point that out.

As for me, well the barrel of a gun would begin to look mighty tasty if I was bitten by a zombie. Mighty tasty indeed. Besides I hear gun-metal is quite high in iron, good for the heart you know!

 

[SaetonChapelle]

I'd clean the wound, take anti-biotics and hope for the best. Maybe quarantine myself. I'd have little reason to just assume that it works like the movies and bite=zombie. No disease in the history of the world has been that infectious or had that high a casualty rate in its victims. The bubonic plague only killed one in three.

If it became clear that I wasn't going to pull through, then I'll probably do the honourable thing.

AIDS has a %100 mortality rate, just thought I'd point that out.

As for me, well the barrel of a gun would begin to look mighty tasty if I was bitten by a zombie. Mighty tasty indeed. Besides I hear gun-metal is quite high in iron, good for the heart you know!

I think you might be confused. AIDS does not have a 100% mortality rate. In case you're curious:
At its peak in 1992, AIDS-related mortality reached a rate of 11 per 100 person-years and then plummeted to 0.144 by 2006. Mortality due to non-AIDS-related causes dropped from 1.74 per 100 person-years in 1996 to 0.776 in 2003 and to 0.26 in 2010.

Between 2005 and 2009, 259 people (5 percent) died, at a median age of 47, resulting in a mortality rate of 1.25 per 100 person-years.

I might be mistaken however. Not really an AIDS professional here~ If so, please feel free to correct.

Source: http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/mortality_rate_1667_23424.shtml

 

[Jenvas1306]

I've got an agreement with my BF: If he gets bitten and would turn into a zombie, I will keep him from creeping around and stuff and end it when necessary.
If I turn into a zombie, he lets me eat him.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

I'd clean the wound, take anti-biotics and hope for the best. Maybe quarantine myself. I'd have little reason to just assume that it works like the movies and bite=zombie. No disease in the history of the world has been that infectious or had that high a casualty rate in its victims. The bubonic plague only killed one in three.

If it became clear that I wasn't going to pull through, then I'll probably do the honourable thing.

AIDS has a %100 mortality rate, just thought I'd point that out.

As for me, well the barrel of a gun would begin to look mighty tasty if I was bitten by a zombie. Mighty tasty indeed. Besides I hear gun-metal is quite high in iron, good for the heart you know!

The actual disease is HIV, and it does not always develop into AIDS. Similarly, contracting the zombie infection might not always lead to zombification.

 

[Henrik Knudsen]

If I could save someone by heroic sacrific, convenient terminal illness style, I would try to do that. Perhaps only if I had been a survivor for long, if it was the first days I would probably put my faith in the hospital and donate myself for the greater good.

If it was just me I think I would just give up, have something to drink and get hammered. Hopefully waking up sober, before turning and off'ing myself if I had access to a gun.

 

[runic knight]

life has a 100% mortality rate, for those trying to mention mortality rates of other viruses and the like.

anyways, I would try to fight it as long as I could. I'd let anyone around me know I was infected in case I did turn, but otherwise carry on with some precautions in place. Namely, a bound mouth mask so I couldn't bite anyone if I did turn (Hannibal style). In the mean time I am a mind and a pair of working hands for the zombie resistance up til the point I did turn. Hell, they might even be able to use me as labor afterwards with my main means of infecting others prevented (unless we are talking smart zombies. I am thinking living dead variant who would be too stupid to take the mask off)

 

[Alcamonic]

Develop a cunning plan. Once I have turned, have a volunteer (still human) take a chunk out of me and see if I turn back. Worst case scenario: It doesn't work, but we will find out if zombies are edible or not depending on him/her turning.

Life's overrated anyway. Everyday life we think of food, sex and how to get those two. Just thinking about food makes everything easier.

 

[Jenvas1306]

Take four steps forward starting with your right foot first. Then take four steps back with your right foot first. Repeat.

Nod your head to one side on beat 1 and skip on 2 and again on beat 3 and 4.

Turn to the side and stick your arms out straight: One if front and one behind and bend your knees. Stick your butt out and wiggle it up and down. Then take a step forward and wiggle.

Stick your hands out like claws and pull like your ripping through a bush or something. Do that two times then switch sides you're pulling at.

Now you are just standing straight. Throw your head back and lean back a bit with one leg out in front. Then take two hops forward. You start in the MJ pose,knees bent slightly, one leg out, the other to the side and stick your hand on your belt NOT your crotch!! The other hand will be out straight to your side.

Go down with your whole body. The reason it is called 'down ha!' is because when you come back up you make a face like you are yelling "HA!". Do that move 4 times.

Right after "down ha!" bring your hands up and clap your hands right over your head. Bring them down slowly and drag your feet to one side. Shrug your shoulders and turn your head to one side and repeat the move going the other way.

There will be an 8 count pause where you just go zombie crazy for a second. Next shake your hands in front of you and do a kind of disco pose with one hand up and one down then do that famous with...

Claws up, out to the side start walking forward 3 counts then turn to the other side then back then back and now you should be walking the direction you came from first (the opposite your going now) and go 3 counts.

Jump! Then bend over and basically touch your toes two times. Look cool for 4 counts then turn around and look cool for 4 counts then come back around and throw one hand over your head and come back down to "air guitar position." Swivel your feet a beat and then bring your arm back up and bring it down but this time it should stop and take 5 counts to make it down. Grab the air on one side of you then punch it four times on your other side.

Turn your head 4 times then turn your body around with 6 steps until you are facing the other direction. Look behind you and slap your leg then take 10 steps backwards. You're trying to time this to exactly before he starts the chorus for the second time in the song because that is where your next step comes in. So go slower or faster depending on how close you are.

thats how you dance the thriller

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

The actual disease is HIV, and it does not always develop into AIDS. Similarly, contracting the zombie infection might not always lead to zombification.

I am aware of the fact that HIV does not always lead to AIDS, but AIDS is still %100 percent lethal. so the precedent does exist for a totally fatal condition.

I think you might be confused. AIDS does not have a 100% mortality rate. In case you're curious:
At its peak in 1992, AIDS-related mortality reached a rate of 11 per 100 person-years and then plummeted to 0.144 by 2006. Mortality due to non-AIDS-related causes dropped from 1.74 per 100 person-years in 1996 to 0.776 in 2003 and to 0.26 in 2010.

Between 2005 and 2009, 259 people (5 percent) died, at a median age of 47, resulting in a mortality rate of 1.25 per 100 person-years.

I might be mistaken however. Not really an AIDS professional here~ If so, please feel free to correct.

Source: http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/mortality_rate_1667_23424.shtml

The thing about mortality rates relating to AIDS is that medical science has gotten very, very, good at slowing the progression of AIDS. Anti-retro virals allow someone with AIDS to live for a long time, but in the end AIDS will kill 100 out of 100 people who contract it.

Completely off-topic: It is rather hard to type while a kitten crawls around on your keyboard and attacks your fingers.

 

[FalloutJack]

Putting aside the fact that as a Catholic it is wrong to kill myself...I wouldn't anyway because I should continue for as long as humanly or inhumanly possible, fight the power.

Right on brother, when the dead rise we shall pray n'spray them away till every last Zack is sent back to hell.

I'm curious though, what about martyrdom? while becoming a martyr for your faith I wonder if their is clause in the catechism that allows for martyrdom in case of a plague. I think I read somewhere(on the web) that suicide is allowed with gods consent since all life belongs to him.

Faith aside I think permanent death would be preferable from becoming a soulless marionette.

Martyrdom, I'm not certain of, but I believe that would be dependent on the how and the why. To make certain, though, it would be my wish to have a heart-moniter placed on me and connected to a Swordfish-type setup, explosives and ball-bearings to be a walking Claymore. Then, I would go find heavy zombie infestations. At the point by which I no longer have a heartbeat, boom. Might sound too much like a suicide bomb, but I don't decide when it's triggered except around things that will surely kill me.

 

[Shdwrnr]

The actual disease is HIV, and it does not always develop into AIDS. Similarly, contracting the zombie infection might not always lead to zombification.

I am aware of the fact that HIV does not always lead to AIDS, but AIDS is still %100 percent lethal. so the precedent does exist for a totally fatal condition.
[snip]

Do you realize that, "I know that HIV is the disease and AIDS is the condition relating to the disease but the condition is 100% fatal." is like saying, "I know getting bitten by a zombie is the disease and that being a zombie is the condition but being a zombie has a 100% being a zombie rate."?

AIDS is not a disease with a 100% mortality rate, it is the terminal condition of an existing disease. That disease does not always result in AIDS.

I have seen similar debates when talking about self replicating nano-machines and the argument against seems to be a doomsday gray goo scenario, never taking this into consideration. It's the same reason why poisons list amounts that result in 50% mortality for subjects with a sample size X. You can't say exactly how much is lethal because there will always be a non-zero percent chance that someone is simply immune.

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

Do you realize that, "I know that HIV is the disease and AIDS is the condition relating to the disease but the condition is 100% fatal." is like saying, "I know getting bitten by a zombie is the disease and that being a zombie is the condition but being a zombie has a 100% being a zombie rate."?

AIDS is not a disease with a 100% mortality rate, it is the terminal condition of an existing disease. That disease does not always result in AIDS.

I have seen similar debates when talking about self replicating nano-machines and the argument against seems to be a doomsday gray goo scenario, never taking this into consideration. It's the same reason why poisons list amounts that result in 50% mortality for subjects with a sample size X. You can't say exactly how much is lethal because there will always be a non-zero percent chance that someone is simply immune.

You are taking this rather ridiculous discussion about zombies, which are complete fictional, rather seriously. Also L.D. 50 does not mean that there is a chance that someone is immune, it simply means that there are those that can stand a higher dosage. I sincerely doubt that there is, was or ever will be someone who is immune to succinylcholine for instance.
Now personally, I`m going to let this whole thing go, because I just don`t care enough about this, admittedly, silly topic to keep arguing about it.

 

[kailus13]

Infected and sure to turn am I? Right lads, help me improvise an explosive vest. I'm going into the center of a horde and TAKING SOME WITH ME!

If that's not possible... Well, any tall buildings around?

Even better: Hook it up to a heart monitor. You can have a blaze of glory and a massive crowd-killing explosion!

Failing that, poison is the road I'd take.

 

[twistedmic]

I'd most likely choose suicide if I were bitten by a zombie rather than trying to amputate. First off, amputation does not guarantee that I won't be turned. Secondly, I don't have the training or equipment to properly amputate a limb with the least amount of damage to myself and I don't think I'd be able to find someone with either. Thirdly, even if amputating the infected limb saves me from becoming a zombie I'd still probably die. If not from blood-loss, shock or non-zombie infection (gangrene for example) the missing limb could limit my mobility/effectiveness enough so that I can't properly hunt or scavenge for food and supplies and even the smell of blood from the amputation could draw more zombies to my location.

 

[lechat]

i'd spend the last few hours left as a human bullet proofing my skull and placing my future corpse in the most populated area i could find
if i'm gonna be a zombie i'm gonna be the best damn zombie i can be ^^

 

[Hero of Lime]

I would never kill myself, even if I was bitten and the pain of turning into a zombie was pretty awful, I would rather go on a suicide run and take out as many zombies or bandit survivors as possible. Or I would separate myself from my group (if I was in one), and go to secluded place. Then I would either find a way to restrain myself, so I couldn't harm anything as a zombie, or look for some wild animals who may want an easy dinner, I'd rather be wolf food than zombie food.

Putting aside the fact that as a Catholic it is wrong to kill myself...I wouldn't anyway because I should continue for as long as humanly or inhumanly possible, fight the power.

I'm in the same boat, not only for the religious/moral reasons, but just as a practical matter, I couldn't aim a gun to my head when I could still be of use to others.

 

[zerragonoss]

I would tie myself to a tree and mediate till I beat the infection or died trying. might cause some problems if I half succeed and just somehow delay the effects and a day or two after usual onset deiced I am good get myself untied than turn, but I would risk it.