why do zombies hunger for human flesh?

[polly_oliver]

and can they survive without it? can they, like vampires, subsist off of substitutes? animals, i mean

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[hikaru93]

well, what are zombies but another physical manifestation of human kinds fear of it's own mortality? They are death- active and coming for you. That's why they have to eat people.

And i'm not sure that real voodoo zombies eat people. From what i understand they're just resurrected dead, period. Possibly enslaved, but not hungering for human flesh.

[polly_oliver]

yeah, we owe george romero for the cannibalism factor. older zombies were basically just human golems.

[polly_oliver]

so i take it you're going with the freud. repressed violence urges. thanatos.

either that or you're treating them purely as a metaphor for humankind's fear of death.

"...the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns..."

[hikaru93]

yeah, more the latter.