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The way I have always seen it is:
Post Romero Zombies (PRZs for you cool kids) are dead, which means they don't breathe, their heart doesn't beat and they have no need for food. Somehow they have developed anarobic brain function, but the brain is working purely on an animal-level instinct.
The eating is a compulsion, a remnant of living ways, but they never feel full (they don't feel anything) so they keep eating. A PRZ will eat until it's stomach blows open and then still keep eating.
As a dead thing a PRZ will continue to decay. It will stop moving once it's muscles and tendons have rotten away from the bones. A warm, humid environment will speed up the process, a cool dry one can prolong the zombified state.
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