After seeing this picture of a “walking dead person,†I asked myself multiple questions:
Is this lady really dead?
Is this lady just terminally ill and about to die?
Is this lady 100+ years old?
What makes these villagers want to raise a dead person?
How did this “walking dead†concept evolve?
So I did some research, and I was able to answer a couple of these questions.
To start, we will never know if this lady is dead in this picture or not. The only way to better understand this is to use common sense and think scientifically. Simply put, a person cannot function anymore when all of the organs of the body stop working. A dead person's heart is stopped which means there is no blood pumping through the body, and no blood getting to the brain.
So if she is really standing up, walking on her own, and she really has risen from the dead, the only possible conclusion is some kind of freaky ritual that actually works.
My first answer to this picture was that she was very ill or very old, but who am I to say that? This ritual has been going on forever in their culture.
During my research, I found some interesting information about the origins of this strange behavior. There seems to be two separate theories on how the walking dead came to be.
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