Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry

Author:Jonathan Maberry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780806528779
Publisher: Citadel
Published: 2008-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

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Art of the Dead—Seth Rose

Strange Immortality

“Immortality is no gift. I can’t think of anything sadder than to just continue to exist.”

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Joyce Kearney, Ph.D., an interfaith pastor and counselor at the Burlington House in New Jersey, says, “I don’t think the issue of killing one’s neighbors—should they become zombies—will do as much psychological or spiritual harm as killing one’s family. Particularly the children. Not only would this cause rips in the fabric of the mind and soul, if the zombie menace were to continue for any length of time then no one would dare to get pregnant. There might be some desperation ‘save me’ kind of sex, but who would want to bring new life into a world where death ruled?”

This view, however, would come about if humanity was believed to be losing the war against the zombies. If the situation was desperate but under some kind of visible control, the deepest levels of panic might not kick in, an opinion to which my experts agreed.

“But if we were seen to be losing that fight things would go terribly wrong, terribly fast. It would destroy our ability to think about the world,” insists Dr. Patel. “Not only would conception fall off, but there would be a rise of what you could call ‘compassionate murder.’ This would not be euthanasia of someone infected by the zombie bite; but murders of healthy children and probably of the elderly, and husbands killing wives and wives killing husbands. Why? Because people would know that to die of a zombie bite would be the practical equivalent of being damned to eternal hell and torment. Mercy killings would seem reasonable to guarantee that their loved ones would never become the living dead. This would, of course, be a catastrophe of incalculable proportions, but worse still would be what would happen if the plague was ended. Imagine surviving such a calamity knowing that you killed your family and that the zombies may never have been able to because the government was getting on top of the situation. You would see yet another round of suicides…so long after the last zombie was destroyed you would still be seeing new deaths.”

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