It's really confusing to me; why is it so controversial that un-not-dead and living-dead are not the same thing?
2007-09-01 11:25:47 · 5 answers · asked by Ashley 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
"Undead" usually refers to corpses that have come back to life .
"Living dead" refers to people who have not yet died , yet who`s brains are dead ................ like many of today`s druggie teenagers !
2007-09-01 12:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terry has a point, but the terms are not commonly used as derogatory statements and therefore are not taboo.
The people who get upset are those who are really into sci-fi, fantasy, and the subject of undead/living dead creatures. Specifically, as has been said here already, Undead refers to Vampires. Living Dead refers to Zombies. That's all it is, nothing more complex than that.
2007-09-01 21:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by Wassime 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Undead reffers to the dead who suck blood but who are more talented at what they do than the living dead who eat brains though are not really alive just enough to move around so are said to be living dead. Seems a contradiction in terms explained best as could.
2007-09-01 18:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by darren m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beats me. undead to me kind of like a possessed person and Living Dead is more like a funny zombie movie. but whatever I didn't know it was so so controversial
2007-09-01 18:35:03 · answer #4 · answered by EviL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both could be, and have been used in ways that hurt the loved ones of persons in a coma--especially in a vegetative coma. They have also been used to denigrate patients of mental hospitals who have had lobotomies.
2007-09-01 20:44:07 · answer #5 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋