THE THEORY OF ZOMBIE PARALYSIS
It’s widely accepted that the best - if not only – way to kill a Zombie is to destroy the brain. The logic being that, in the absence of a beating 
heart as the body’s primary drive mechanism, the brain is the Zombie’s power center.
Additionally, it’s universally believed that Zombies possess no greater physical skill or ability than did the person who inhabited the same body during life. For example, a blind man in life would not die and rise from the grave as a undead menace with perfect 20/20 vision. Blind is blind, dead or alive.
Using these two “facts” as a jumping off point, the Morlock Theory of Zombie Paralysis offers an intriguing alternative to traditional Zombie defense strategy. Morlock argues that the walking dead can be rendered harmless by catastrophic damage to the nerves of a spinal cord. Simply put, because the Zombie body receives its instructions from the Zombie brain, a Zombie nervous system must be intact to deliver messages.
Shoot a Zombie in the lungs, and it will keep coming. Chop off one foot and it will hobble at you on the other. Rip out its stomach, and it will still chew on your flesh like nothing’s missing. But break its back or neck, and you just might have a quadriplegic Zombie on your hands, unable to do anything but lie on the ground and moan.
So the next time you think the only way to stop a Zombie is to aim for the head, think again. The back/neck/chest might be an easier target, and just as effective.
Just to play devil’s advocate here….what if the zombie doesn’t issue muscle commands through the nervous system like a normal body, but through the magnetized blood?
This is combining the theory about the brain moving the blood through magnetism rather than the heart pumping it and this post here.
break there neck then kill them simple of that
No it’s not. Even if you decapitate the head, the head itself is still a threat. If you aren’t paying attention you could find a hungry mouth biting through your shoe.
i was talking break the spinal cord not decapitation
And if the head is severed, is not the spinal cord broke as well?
Depending on where you break the spinal cord, you could either have just the head snapping around on a unmoving body or you could have a zombie crawler. Either way, decapitation or just breaking the spine, the head is still active.
I agree with this. Break a zombie’s back, and they could still use their arms to crawl after you. Depending on where the break occurs. Break their neck, and they ain’t going anywhere.
The danger here is to not forget that a paralyzed zombie is still dangerous. No matter where the break comes, they can still bite you if you get careless.
Headcases and crawlers, to me, are more dangerous than walking zombies; depending on the location. High grass, crawlers would be the worst, but there is still a possibility of stepping right on top of a headcase(my term for a still function head).
Intriguing theory, and you may well be correct.
Zombie crawlers are usually depicted as torn in two zombies, with the upper half crawling toward you. It would make sense that destroying the spine would render what ever is below the damage inoperable.
Of course maybe the general being dead effect, explains why zombies move at a slower pace than normal, the dead cells surrounding the nerves limit the amount of or speed of information being passed?
Thanks for addressing my question/theory!! I’m honored, haha.
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