What would you do if people suddenly started coming back to life?

[geK0]

I would gather some friends and invade the local Costco; we would then fortify the Costco (it's already pretty fortified) and establish a small town inside. It would be the perfect survival hub!

*after actually reading the OP*

-I would do my best to help them assimilate into modern culture, maybe see if I could help them get jobs and what not. Maybe I'd be charitable and set up a (not entirely legal) tent-city refugee hub in a park with the help of some other charitable individuals; I'm a friendly guy like that.

-I would like to speak to some of the great minds of history, but an insignificant individual such as myself wouldn't really have the social status to pique their interest. I figure there are more important people than myself who would have more to gain by speaking to them.

-I would seek out some of my ancestors and let them move into my home until they can get back on their feet because they're family and because I'd be really curious to see what my ancestors were like.




I wonder what people would do to Hitler.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I'd be a little alarmed about what this means for the universe and our reality if all of a sudden, Dead people were back. It would mean something was wrong with existence itself.

It would be interesting to see some historical people though. Mozart, and the like. Abraham Lincoln talking modern politics.

A scary thought is the idea of Hitler or Bin Laden coming back, because you know there would be more than enough morons that would follow them. Do really want to put the power of Twitter in the hands the Third Reich? I don't.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I'd be choking on dust seeing as all my close family members were cremated.

How exactly reanimated are these people though? Do they regrow their decomposed flesh etc? Is it the only recent dead?

In the series, it ranges from those who died a year ago, to those who died up to 35 years ago.

The thread has spun off into all of history, so I suppose that's fair game.

And yes, they come back completely normal: fully reanimated, normal bodily functions, normal appearance(at time of death), etc.

 

[DragonLordSerge]

I would be very scared and unable to trust them and since they died once they cant be human i would probably would rekill my uncle, great grandma and grandpa cause i would be afraid that they are not them regardless of what they say

 

[Padwolf]

I'd be terrified at first, then I'd sit and hope that even though it messes up the natural order of things, I'd sit and hope for my cat Snowey back. I'd be happy to see my grandad again though and get the chance to spend better time with him. It would be nice, but thinking about it is kinda sad.

 

[sanquin]

I wouldn't even want to wish my father that fate. For one, he was cremated. But mostly because of his condition in the year before his death. Unless those are fixed too. Then I'd go to my father with a box of cigars and a very good whisky and spend the next summer evening with him in the backyard like we used to. We only did it a few times, and I didn't think too much of it. But now I miss doing that with him quite a bit.

 

[Remus]

I'd actually consider the environmental and economical implications of all these millions and millions (billions?) of people suddenly coming back to life. All these extra people would require food, shelter, electricity, putting a further strain on a world that's already damaged beyond repair. If nothing else, an event like this might hopefully push the space program along just so we have a place to put all these people.

I think about these things, since I tend to keep emotional attachments at a minimum. I never go to funerals, if someone in my gene pool dies, I "meh" and continue playing games. It's just how I am and I feel that being the only dry eye at a burial might be viewed as insulting to the other, still living people, creating drama where none need be had.

 

[Estranged180]

Well, after quietly freaking out about people coming back to life, I'd have to get me one of these bad boys, and go straight to town on the nearest corpse.

Spoiler

This thing would make Krieg happier than a psycho drenched in blood.

Of course, then I'd have to find some gas. Most likely because swinging that bad boy around like a madman can get a little tiring, one might like to sit down and drive over some recently undead with one of these. (also because that bad boy needs gas to work. Yes, I know it's a design flaw, but hey, these are corpses we're talking about here)

Spoiler

But then I'd have to find a local uninfected tire shop that has the size tires of that particular vehicle, because as sure as I type this, one of those rear wheels would go flat on me, leaving me to be nothing more than a can of sardines for the next nearest undead hoard.

Barring all of that (with the exception of the freaking out quietly, because if zombie games taught me anything, its that the hoards are attracted to loud noises, such as those made by a human freaking out in a not-so-quiet fashion) I'd probably take stock in what I have in the house, and try to perfect the technology necessary for this to be a thing.

Spoiler

I already have all the schematics for the thing, but for some reason, they won't let me have a rail gun. Or a nuclear power plant small enough to run it.

Of course, if they aren't zombies... the situation does not change. The deceased of my family should stay deceased, and if they came back for something, it was probably money. That alone would force me to do all of the above. 'Cuz man, f*ck my family, living and dead.

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

Buy stock in companies that make chainsaws. Either that or start researching ways to turn reanimated flesh into a fuel source.

OR!

Begin a porn empire around necrophilia. Equality!

 

[ChippedShoulder]

Become fabulously wealthy by building the world's first extreme suiciding sport centre. Because you know it'd become an extreme sport.