But what the living dead lack in speed, they make up for in other qualities.
The living dead will then have an easier path to citizenship than the living.
These examples highlight the positive ways that the living dead can be used to spark interest in other ideas.
Still, there's a real downside to these constant references to the living dead.
He considers Night of the Living Dead a movie about revolution, inspired by the backdrop of Vietnam and riots.
Any species that has managed to invent duct tape, Twinkies and smartphones stands a fighting chance against the living dead.
"Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic with an embedded audience who will come to see it repeatedly, " says Bernstein.
In almost all of them, the living dead are introduced in minute one, and by minute 10, the world is a wasteland.
This June National Amusements will roll-out a colorized, digitized 3-D production of Night of the Living Dead at some 500 of its cinemas.
The Tory party might still be a valid political entity instead of the antediluvian cryptofascist laughingstock-come-home for the living dead it is now.
The original title of his directorial debut was Night of the Flesh Eaters, but the distributor made the change to Night of the Living Dead.
Decades after George A Romero scared the life out of cinemagoers with the classic zombie horror Night of the Living Dead (1968), the movie world has been plagued again with shambling corpses.
Because the living dead resonate so strongly with the present cultural moment, it is no surprise that various promoters and policy entrepreneurs have used them as a "hook" for their own causes.
Another is The Night of the Living Dead Pixels, a graphic novel (shown above) that allows you to choose your path, with terminal pages featuring QR codes that trigger videos on your smartphone.
This year's fare of the living dead in cinemas and on TV has included the start of season three of The Walking Dead, films Cockneys Vs Zombies and Resident Evil: Retribution and children's animation ParaNorman.
Why are the living dead taking over our lives, and why have so many other domains of American culture, from architects to academics to departments of the federal government, been so eager to jump on this macabre bandwagon?
As you will know (don't yawn) if you read this column, this economic malaise has been characterised by many weak businesses being put on life support and turned into the living dead, or (to use what is now a cliche, so sorry) zombies.
There are books on zombie zen, zombie Christmas carols, and generally in print, most of the zombie stuff is strictly humor, like Pat the Zombie, Zombies for Zombies: Advice and Etiquette for the Living Dead, The Zombie Survival Guide, and the competing Zombie Survival Guide: How to Live like A King After the Outbreak.
In the aftermath of battle survivors often shoveled corpses into pits as they would dispose of animals "in bunches, just like dead chickens, " one observer noted dehumanizing both the living and the dead through their disregard.
You can trawl through cinema and find few more beautiful, more unforced, or more fleeting representations of the bourn between the living and the dead.
"The people who need to be remembered most now, and helped, are the living, not the dead, especially those suffering from post traumatic stress, " she says.
Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is named after the ferryman who carried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, which divided the world of the living from that of the dead.
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Surprisingly, the conceit of looking down from heaven works nicely, since Ms Sebold avoids the precious, making Susie's paradise agreeably ordinary, a place where the dead learn to let go of the living while below the living learn to let go of the dead.
Her novel Beyond Black, about a medium who is tormented by her acquaintances, both the living and the dead, was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
"It is also a symbol that marks the doorway between the world of the living and the world of the dead that is offered as our acknowledgement of the dead, " he told the BBC.
Characters on stage include Baron Samedi, Voodoo divinity of the dead, and the zombie, a living-dead slave.
Video showed bodies still inside the carriages as they were shoved by backhoes into newly dug slit trenches, and today some still wonder whether the living were entombed along with the dead.
One foreign election observer even estimated that it would have been as high as 60% had the electoral rolls been winnowed of the dead and those living abroad.
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