Thought Provoking

[Dude Guadalupe]

Zombies.....Do they poop? I mean, if their organs don't function (I'm sure they don't) what happens to everything they eat? Does it just slip out, or do they fill up until their stomachs explode or what?

What do you guys think?

[bloodrayne]

Hmm...But, if their stomaches got full and exploded, that wouldn't kill them, so I guess then their bodies would fill up until THEY exploded...So...Uhh...How come we don't see any exploded zombies?...They DO eat a lot...Right?

[Mictlantechutli]

I'm rather sure they eat out of a non-stop desire to fill the void (life & vitality) that can no longer be filled. So they will eat until their stomach bursts and the consumed flesh distends their stomachs. The outer flesh will tear as well and the flesh they've eaten will spill out in a decomposing slug trail behind them...and they will continue to feed.:eek:

But no poop - no functioning internal organs other than the brain.

At least that's how the Romero zombie mythos and the Zombie Survival Guide plays out

[Dude Guadalupe]

I'd like to see the slug trail thing played out in a movie, that would be kinda cool.

[bloodrayne]

Yeah...Why don't we ever see any of them expelling any of this masticated, rotted flesh?

[chaibill]

they may use all that they eat and produce no waste everything is used or could loose waste through skin but thats an organ too but so are eyes so those work right

[bloodrayne]

they may use all that they eat and produce no waste everything is used or could loose waste through skin but thats an organ too but so are eyes so those work rightHMM...Why DO their eyes and ears work, if no other organs do?...That's a really good question...

[Dude Guadalupe]

Maybe they don't work. Maybe zombies just have a sixth sense.

[bloodrayne]

Maybe they don't work. Maybe zombies just have a sixth sense.
They don't really even THINK...They just run on instinct like animals; ie: eat, reproduce, survive...And I don't think they're even CONSCIOUSLY reproducing, or aware that it happens when they attack someone...So, do you think that their rotted brains would REALLY be capable of anything 'extrasensory'?

[Angra]

I'm pretty sure they just shit their pants on a regular basis.


Or at least that's what i've heard. :)

[chaibill]

HMM...Why DO their eyes and ears work, if no other organs do?...That's a really good question...

That is why I am here.

[Dude Guadalupe]

They have to have some way of knowing, and assuming that their organs (all of them) don't work what else could it be? If you mix and match it becomes contradictory.

[bloodrayne]

I'm pretty sure they just shit their pants on a regular basis.


But they can't process their food to really MAKE poop, so if everything they ate just fell out of their butts, it would have to get past all of the zombies OWN organs that would be in the way...I mean, they'd be stopped up by their own guts, so they couldn't possibly poop anything out...That's why they'd have to explode

[bloodrayne]

assuming that their organs (all of them) don't work what else could it be? I don't know....But, when you poke their eyes out, they're blinded, and I've seen some of them raise their heads and 'sniff' the air...So, it would seem that SOME organs MUST be functioning...

[Dude Guadalupe]

Could it be just the organs in close proximity to the brain, since the brain is what makes them function in the first place?

[chaibill]

but weren't the original "zombies" just people thet were thought to be dead from some type or body function-slowing poison that had been buried as dead and then dug them selves out or came back to "life" at a funeral ceramony and scared the shit out of voodoo practicers

but you need the spine to function too and to send all the motor functions like walking with a bum leg

[bloodrayne]

but weren't the original "zombies" just people thet were thought to be dead from some type or body function-slowing poison that had been buried as dead and then dug them selves out or came back to "life" at a funeral ceramony and scared the shit out of voodoo practicers
Oh yeah..That's a TOTALLY different kinda zombie...Those aren't really even zombies at all...Just people recovering from a catatonic state

And they don't eat people :p

[chaibill]

Oh yeah..That's a TOTALLY different kinda zombie...Those aren't really even zombies at all...Just people recovering from a catatonic state

And they don't eat people :p

oh yeah how silly of me you mean real zombies

[bloodrayne]

but you need the spine to function too and to send all the motor functions like walking with a bum leg
Well, we HAVE established that the BRAIN works...That's why destroying the brain puts them out of commission

But...In Return Of The Living Dead, all of the body parts work independently of the brain...Hmm

[bloodrayne]

oh yeah how silly of me you mean real zombies
HAHAHAHA:D


Yeah...Get it RIGHT :p

[Dude Guadalupe]

But...In Return Of The Living Dead, all of the body parts work independently of the brain...HmmReturn was more of a spoof, I think.

[stubbornforgey]

next time one passes my door..
I will ask him.

I think they do cos this one time..a zombie walked past my
bedroom door and there was toilet paper hanging from the back of her
jama pants..so i had to yell..
MUMMMMMM..theres toilet paper hanging from the back of your jama pants'!!

[Dante'sInferno]

Yeah,they act all retarded when humans are around then they eat them,after that there like,GOD DAMN!MY ASS HURTS!Then they run to the nearest restroom and unload...and their all like..........................









HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shadow]

So if their organs don't work, how the hell do they do anything? You say the only functioning organ is their brain but in order for their brain to work surely they have to be breathing and their heart pumping blood but their dead right so ummm OK I'm lost. I guess they die as humans and are kinda re-born as zombies right?

[stubbornforgey]

So if their organs don't work, how the hell do they do anything? You say the only functioning organ is their brain but in order for their brain to work surely they have to be breathing and their heart pumping blood but their dead right so ummm OK I'm lost. I guess they die as humans and are kinda re-born as zombies right?


do you know nothing about zombies..?? :rolleyes:
Zombies don't die..
they just go home to mama in memphis :D

[novakru]

I didn't have time to read this whole thread.
Very interesting subject!

My 2 cents is the brains they eat just oozes outta them...from you know...orfices.
If someone else already said this, sorry.

[monsterhash]

hmm this is a good question-the zombie is a body that is animated for the sole purpose of consumption. The body of a zombie does not regenerate, it is not necessary for a zombie to regenerate cellular structure as it simply will run until it loses it's head or is disabled (unable to move due to loss of limbs).

No they do not poop. They have no metabolic process, only a curse/spell/prophetic agenda powering them.

[zosomoto]

I'm pretty sure they just shit their pants on a regular basis.


Or at least that's what i've heard. :)




hehe that's funny :)

[zosomoto]

Okay I thought about it...

After a zombies stomach is full and he or she keeps eating, their stomach must just explode. If that happens, all future swallowed stuff will seep out and fill the body cavity.

It does seem logical that they'd then definitely have to burst at some point. I say unless you kill them, they will eat till they burst.

[Disease]

Zombies just shit themselfs constantly , out of all oraphesas....

[newb]

Zombie poop.....this sounds like it could be one of my threads.

[stubbornforgey]

do zombies actually have the organs to poop with..??

[crabapple]

Oh yes! They do.

[Despare]

Check out Monster Island/Nation/Planet, I like the theory that if they eat and eat and eat... they gain in size.

"A naked dead man came stomping out of the Elephant House on calves like utility poles. He stood at least ten feet tall, a quaking mound of pallid flesh shot through with black veins. There was no muscle tone on the giant whatsoever, just great rolls of translucent flab and doughy meat. His hands were bloated and nearly useless, human-sized nails sunk deep into the tips of his swollen fingers. His human-sized head sat in the middle of the gelatinous mass of his body like an obscene barnacle. Gary had never seen anything like him before. He gave more than a passing second to the thought that this might be his benefactor, and his doom, but it couldn’t be so. When he plucked the strings of the net that tied together all dead men and women he felt no stirring of intelligence in this beast.

What he did see in his mind’s eye was horrible to look upon—dark energy, far more than seemed possible, a writhing, roiling storm cloud of it that blazed and radiated away from the giant in great gouts and yet never diminished in strength—a black star. There was hatred in there as well, raw red hatred for anyone who dared enter the precincts of the beast’s domain.

The creature before Gary had not begun its existence at that size. He had been a big man in life but neither a body-builder or an athlete. He had merely been one of the first of the walking dead to find his way to the Zoo. He had fought off the weaker dead as they arrived, engaged in epic combats with the stronger ones but always he had prevailed. His current size was due simply to eating greater quantities of more robust meat than anyone else who tried to challenge him.

There were no more elephants in the Elephant House, Gary realized, nor any giraffes, or hippopotami or rhinos or bears. He was looking at what was left of them."

[bloodrayne]

Check out Monster Island/Nation/Planet, I like the theory that if they eat and eat and eat... they gain in size.It's a cool concept, but dead skin loses its moisture and elasticity, instead of stretching, it would split...And cell-production stops upon death, so...No growth

Thanks for the excerpt...Very nice :)

[Despare]

It's a cool concept, but dead skin loses its moisture and elasticity, instead of stretching, it would split...And cell-production stops upon death, so...No growth

Thanks for the excerpt...Very nice :)

I think it has to do with absorbing the energy and in turn cells. There's an explination in the second book I believe (complete with a disgusting not quite zombie no where near human woman). The zombies in those books can sense the energy of the living and grow stronger upon consuming it, I believe the flesh they consume combines with theirs. Either way... no poop. :(

[crabapple]

I do believe you can make up you own rules with zombiesz.

[zosomoto]

Last night I watched a zombie movie called The Stink Of Flesh... not only was it highly entertaining in that stupid but funny way, but there was a scene where a couple of dudes came up upon 2 piles of zombie shit in the road... one of the piles had a human tooth sticking out hehe.



Also, this is directly from Max Brooks Zombie Survival Guide found on pages page 11 and 12 under the living dead digestion section...

Recent evidence has once and for all discounted the theory that human flesh is the fuel for the undead. A zombie's digestive tract is completely dormant. The complex system that processes food, extracts nutrition, and excretes waste does not factor into a zombie's physiology.

Autopsies conducted on neutralized undead have shown that their "food" lies in it's original, undigested state at all sections of the tract. This partially chewed, slowly rotting matter will continue to accumulate, as the zombie devours more victims, until it's forced through the anus, or literally bursts through the stomach or intestinal lining.

While this more dramatic example of non-digestion is rare, hundreds of eyewitness reports have confirmed undead to have distended bellies. One captured and dissected specimen was found to have 211 pounds of flesh within it's system! Even rarer accounts have confirmed that zombies continue to feed long after their digestive tracts have exploded within.

[yourlastmistake]

[QUOTE=zosomoto;600620]Last night I watched a zombie movie called The Stink Of Flesh... not only was it highly entertaining in that stupid but funny way, but there was a scene where a couple of dudes came up upon 2 piles of zombie shit in the road... one of the piles had a human tooth sticking out hehe.



An excellent low budget Zombie flick imo.

[Rayne]

I have reached a final hypothesis about this matter.


I had once believed that we could simply barricade ourselves in a fortified location (preferably a mall) until the zombies all exploded from overeating and died (which was what started this conversation in the first place)

However, I had forgotten one thing...A zombie can explode, but still be alive...It's so obvious, I can't believe I didn't think of it before

Zombies can't poop...They simply eat until they explode, the explosion most likely starting as a rip near the belly button, and developing into a full split up to the sternum...And then they just keep eating

So, I guess there's no real way to just wait them out


Oh, I have also decided that I need to watch The Stink Of Flesh :)

[Ferox13]

I can't remember any of the characters in any of Romeros zombie films taking a dump - I think they're all set in an alternative universe where excrement is no longer made and food is cleaning assimulated in the stomach without any waste..

Its hinted at in in the commentry on Land of the Dead.