Zombie fiction is really terrifying because it is quite difficult to stop the living dead, and their tendency to treat flesh (or brain) or to bite new victims of rage means that they also bring an unpleasant existential threat. No one wants to become a zombie, and the potential to turn makes death by the zombie even worse than the simple fact of being consumed alive. The success of shows like “The Walking Dead” of AMC led people to ask themselves: could the zombies really exist? There are different types of zombies, such as Monsters infected with mushrooms on “The Last of Us” and the Rage infected with the franchise virus “28 days later”But what about walking dead? Could corpses never continue to act, even though they break down?

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The “walkers” of “The Walking Dead” are deadly because they not only infect others by their bites, but they are difficult to overcome, requiring significant damage to the brain to shoot them down. It’s great for narration purposes, but let’s see what some experts have to say about the real scientific possibility of facing deadly living zombies.

The short and the sweet is not, the undead zombies do not exist and cannot exist. Speaking with Canada National postThe associate professor of internal medicine at McMaster University, Dr. John Neary, explained that “the brain needs a constant uninterrupted blood flow containing glucose and oxygen” in order to continue to function in any way, which means that all these walkers with their organs have rotten or destroyed with weapons could not continue. Who is Speaking walkers, whisperedall the more impossible, but let’s say that The virus that caused the zombie epidemic In one way or another, the brain is independent of all other body systems – could the dead continue to walk even though their bodies have started to rot?

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To answer this, Mechanical spoke with the Texas -based morticiene, Melissa Unfred, who broke the disgusting details of the way the bodies decompose. While the zombies of “The Walking Dead” mainly imitate the decomposition states, she notes that the zombies which have become completely dried up could no longer move. Without muscles, tendons and solid skin that keep everything, movement becomes extremely difficult. This is perhaps the reason for their mixture of brand zombies, because as Unfred said, “[…] If they were to start running, I think their legs would fly away. “As funny as it would be, it is not really scary, so not surprising that” The Walking Dead “has chosen to take some liberties with the science of decomposition. She also stressed that there are simply not enough zombies swollen in the franchise, given the common way of Corpse Bloating in fact, but maybe it’s better.

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Obviously, the dead are an impossibility for a certain number of reasons, but there have been real scientific discussions on the zombies of Haitian vodou, where a combination of herbs and a kind of hypnosis puts a person in a trance where they are controlled and insane drones. The terrifying practice of the creation of “zombis” was documented by visitors in Haiti at the beginning and in the middle of the 20th century, although there was a doubt about the veracity of their stories. In “Tell My Horse” by Zora Neale Hurston, she reveals a photograph of a supposed zombi, a woman who has been kept in this state for some time, but perhaps the best known “real” Zombi comes from the anthropologist Wade Davis, who wrote “The snake and the rainbow: an astonishing journey of Harvard in the secret Haitian societies magic. “”.

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“The Serpent and the Rainbow” has been transformed into a Wes Craven movieAnd although it is definitely fictitious, it represents the closest thing we have ever obtained from a scientifically possible “zombie” on the screen. The dead cannot walk, but it may be life that we really have to be careful, anyway.