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If your child was bit by a zombie....What would you do?

ItsMeArmaniItsMeArmani
edited October 2012 in The Walking Dead
This question goes out to those who have children and those who don't. If your child was to become a flesh eater. How would you handle the situation?
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  • Miaou50Miaou50
    edited September 2012
    Hi,
    No hesitation.
    I kill him.
    Everything depends on the context, and in this particular context, no hesitation.
  • BrokenNintendoBrokenNintendo
    edited September 2012
    Option 4 is the Morgan Jones option @ the comics.
  • rachellouise85rachellouise85
    edited September 2012
    let someone else do it
  • FarmerJoeFarmerJoe
    edited September 2012
    As much as I would hate it I would do it myself. Why pass the responsibility to someone else? It would be something that would be very painful to live with but I'd feel somewhat of a failure as a man and a father for letting someone else shoulder that responsibily and also I could,eventully,come to resent that person.
  • LadyJLadyJ
    edited September 2012
    Any infected person gets put down. It's that simple. I would take them out before they could get me.
  • WrightyWrighty
    edited September 2012
    If I could, I would lock him in the basement. Who knows, maybe a cure will be released soon? But if push came to shove, yeah I would kill him.
  • rachellouise85rachellouise85
    edited September 2012
    because another person wouldn't have he same feelings for your child. The kid may be a zombie, but I would still see my child, and would see myself as murdering him (even though I know he is already dead). To someone else, he would just be another zombie .
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited September 2012
    Tuff choice to make.Can you wait out a ZA?Do they live for ever?Who is infected?Are you better off with a small group of people or large?One thing man has not faced is a Alien Invasion good or bad.This will happen before any ZA.
  • Rock114Rock114
    edited September 2012
    I would definately try to do it myself. I'm the father, it should be my responsibility. As hard as I try though, there's a possibility I wouldn't be able to do it. I hold no illusions about that, and if I couldn't do it I would try to have someone else do it for me. At the very least I wouldn't want my kid shambling around as one of the. It'd be far more heartbreaking than doing the deed myself.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited September 2012
    Assuming we are going by Walking Dead logic, I would just amputate the body part that he was bitten, as that allows a person to survive the bite.

    Assuming I can't do that, I'd wait until he actually got sick from the bite before killing him. Take
    Duck for instance, he wasn't deadly sick instantly, he was fine and it gradually became worse, I'd wait until then as he/she probably wouldn't know what is happening by them
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited September 2012
    Live or die you are a Zombie.
  • Red PandaRed Panda
    edited September 2012
    ItsMeArmani wrote: »
    This question goes out to those who have children and those who don't. If your child was to become a flesh eater. How would you handle the situation?

    You mean, as a person without kids, you are giving me the opportunity to answer? Why thank you for your generosity!

    Well, let me see....

    I guess I could do it. After s/he died, probably. It would be too hard to kill my child.

    Reading some of the responses, I'm glad most of you aren't my parents. Heartless bastards. lol
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited September 2012
    Red Panda wrote: »
    You mean, as a person without kids, you are giving me the opportunity to answer? Why thank you for your generosity!

    Well, let me see....

    I guess I could do it. After s/he died, probably. It would be too hard to kill my child.

    Reading some of the responses, I'm glad most you aren't my parents. Heartless bastards. lol

    It will never come to this so hang strong.Save your strength for the cards we will be dealt from outer space.
  • 8Bit_System8Bit_System
    edited September 2012
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Assuming we are going by Walking Dead logic, I would just amputate the body part that he was bitten, as that allows a person to survive the bite.

    Assuming I can't do that, I'd wait until he actually got sick from the bite before killing him. Take
    Duck for instance, he wasn't deadly sick instantly, he was fine and it gradually became worse, I'd wait until then as he/she probably wouldn't know what is happening by them
    I would think it would be to late to act when the symptoms are already in effect. An amputation would need to be done before the infection has spread inside the body.

    That would be like your kid was bitten by a snake, then you wait a while until the symptoms start showing and then you act and bind off the bitten extremity. The poison is all over the body by that time.
  • FoinikasFoinikas
    edited September 2012
    I would just leave it locked in a house or just leave it and go hoping that a cure for the zombie virus would be soon discovered....I mean providing that I can leave the area.
  • IndigoHawkIndigoHawk
    edited September 2012
    Most people aren't going to be able to take out their own infected kid. That's just a fantasy people have about being tough, like how some people think they could fight off a wild animal, like a mountain lion. ("I'd punch it in the throat!" Yeah, whatever.)

    People have no idea if they could do it until they're there, looking at their legacy, their hope for the future, the part of themselves that was supposed to live on, what they loved and cared for more than anything. People are going to want to believe the kid can be saved or that the kid isn't that sick. Maybe the kid is going to be fine. Maybe there will be a cure. Etc. People will hold onto false hope.

    So, I think a lot of people wouldn't do anything, just stay with the kid until it turns and kills them because the reality is too horrible to face, and they're hoping for a miracle. Some others would do suicide or murder/suicide. I think it would be a minority who kill the kid, and most of those would lose the will to survive.
  • FoinikasFoinikas
    edited September 2012
    Agreed with Indigo!
  • FarmerJoeFarmerJoe
    edited September 2012
    rachellouise85 wrote: »
    because another person wouldn't have he same feelings for your child. The kid may be a zombie, but I would still see my child, and would see myself as murdering him (even though I know he is already dead). To someone else, he would just be another zombie .

    I understand that, but personally every time I'd see that person I would always think "you're the man/woman who killed my child, you're the person who did what I wasn't strong enough to do". If they were a friend I suspect that it would eventually sour the relationship.

    I would feel it was my last duty and a final act of compassion, as their father, to end my child's suffering rather than let someone else,who has no love for them, do it.I would hate the fact that they dealt with the situation as if they were just dispatching another zombie.I think I'd also find it a lot easier if the child had actually turned into a walker, because that monstrous thing would no longer be the child I loved.
  • DreadMagusDreadMagus
    edited September 2012
    Let 'em die "naturally" - then bust a cap in their head before they could re-animate.
  • RafaelBrasileiroRafaelBrasileiro
    edited September 2012
    Take the child out of its misery.
    could not let my son become a walker.
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited September 2012
    Yeah, this question is ridiculous. Very few people would be able to shoot a loved one, and anyone who can look at the decision rationally and say the intelligent answer is missing the entire point. I'd always pick the decision to let them reanimate and wander as a zombie. At least then I could delude myself that one day they'd get better.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited September 2012
    8Bit_System wrote: »
    I would think it would be to late to act when the symptoms are already in effect. An amputation would need to be done before the infection has spread inside the body.

    That would be like your kid was bitten by a snake, then you wait a while until the symptoms start showing and then you act and bind off the bitten extremity. The poison is all over the body by that time.

    I think you might be a bit confused on what I said(which I didn't explain too well so sorry). I would amputate a child if they got bitten immediately yes, the second paragraph is what I would do if it was too late/bitten in a vital area like the chest where you can't really perform an amputation. I didn't really differentiate the 2 so sorry :p
  • deadman67797deadman67797
    edited September 2012
    If the parent is alive, I'd let him/her shoot the kid. If that parent loves the kid, they'd kill him/her before the transformation.
  • DemonseedDemonseed
    edited September 2012
    I'd let my child die then when he/she came back, I'd put "it" (the flesh-eater/killer) down.

    To deadman....not every parent could shoot their own child....it has nothing to do with love but emotions. If you expect to survive in a situation like a ZA, you better grasp that concept.
  • rachellouise85rachellouise85
    edited September 2012
    FarmerJoe wrote: »
    I understand that, but personally every time I'd see that person I would always think "you're the man/woman who killed my child, you're the person who did what I wasn't strong enough to do". If they were a friend I suspect that it would eventually sour the relationship.

    I would feel it was my last duty and a final act of compassion, as their father, to end my child's suffering rather than let someone else,who has no love for them, do it.I would hate the fact that they dealt with the situation as if they were just dispatching another zombie.I think I'd also find it a lot easier if the child had actually turned into a walker, because that monstrous thing would no longer be the child I loved.

    i wouldn't think that. I would rather have the last memory of doing something with my son being a somewhat happy one, not me shooting him in the head replaying over and over. I would rather say my goodbyes, then leave so someone else could do it.
  • HoqtHoqt
    edited September 2012
    I will have someone else do it. I know I will leave him and walk away.
    I don't want to witness my own child chasing after me when I'm on a train.
    I know i will beg someone to take him out though.
  • DreadMagusDreadMagus
    edited September 2012
    I must be a cold hearted bastard (which... I am... but still)

    I can't fathom letting a "loved one" become an animate rotting eating machine..... that seems so insanely cruel I can't even get my mind around it.
  • dustpuffsdustpuffs
    edited September 2012
    I am the mother of three grown children. If one of them were bitten, and it were somewhere, say, in the shoulder, that could not be amputated, then I would sit with them and hold them and talk with them until they died. Then I would would put a bullet in their brain before they could come back, because I know they would not want to come back as something that would harm what humans were remaining. If any of my other children or my spouse were still alive, I would try to go on. If not, I would kill myself. Now excuse me while I go call them all, cause just typing this makes me want to puke.
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited September 2012
    dustpuffs wrote: »
    I am the mother of three grown children. If one of them were bitten, and it were somewhere, say, in the shoulder, that could not be amputated, then I would sit with them and hold them and talk with them until they died. Then I would would put a bullet in their brain before they could come back, because I know they would not want to come back as something that would harm what humans were remaining. If any of my other children or my spouse were still alive, I would try to go on. If not, I would kill myself. Now excuse me while I go call them all, cause just typing this makes me want to puke.

    See? See? This question is fucked up!
  • ItsMeArmaniItsMeArmani
    edited September 2012
    Master of Aeons wrote: »
    See? See? This question is fucked up!

    Aeons i've noticed that this question bothers you. Seems to be getting at your emotions. Post about it....i'm curious to hear your true feelings about this.
  • lucidity02lucidity02
    edited September 2012
    IndigoHawk wrote: »
    I think it would be a minority who kill the kid, and most of those would lose the will to survive.

    Agreed. I'm a parent myself and there is no way in hell I could ever shoot my child, zombie or not.
  • Red PandaRed Panda
    edited September 2012
    ItsMeArmani wrote: »
    Aeons i've noticed that this question bothers you. Seems to be getting at your emotions. Post about it....i'm curious to hear your true feelings about this.

    You notice enough to see it bothers him but not enough to know his feelings on it?

    You want me to tell you how he feels? Bothered.
  • NinnuendoNinnuendo
    edited September 2012
    Difficult question for me as someone with borderline personality disorder. Everyone in my life gets filed into extremes of good, bad or irrelevent, so while I could very easily kill 99% of people (before they'd even turned, I'm a cold f**k) put my child infront of me and there's just no way I'd be able to do it.
    In all likelihood I'd tie them up in a place where no-one could get hurt, then spend days with them, desensitizing to reality before I put them down.
  • Drake SigarDrake Sigar
    edited September 2012
    Lock em in the basement, call around an insurance salesman every month, and cave in the back of their skull with a snow shovel so my child can feed.
  • Luigi01080Luigi01080
    edited September 2012
    option 5: give them zombrex :D
  • ItsMeArmaniItsMeArmani
    edited September 2012
    Red Panda wrote: »
    You notice enough to see it bothers him but not enough to know his feelings on it?

    You want me to tell you how he feels? Bothered.

    ........
  • DreadMagusDreadMagus
    edited September 2012
    Luigi01080 wrote: »
    option 5: give them zombrex :D

    At one thousand bucks a box. :D
  • Luigi01080Luigi01080
    edited September 2012
    DreadMagus wrote: »
    At one thousand bucks a box. :D

    lots of corpses and banks to take the money from with alot of people dead so i think its alright.
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited September 2012
    Luigi01080 wrote: »
    option 5: give them zombrex :D

    Ohhhh shit I gave them Valkyr nooooooooooo
  • DreadMagusDreadMagus
    edited September 2012
    ahahahahahaha way to go dude, they just went uber-psychotic. lol
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