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Take care of a walker?

Phil_TWDPhil_TWD
edited March 2013 in The Walking Dead
Let's say someone you loved turned to a walker and you didn't want to kill or hurt her/him, would it be possible to take care?

As in, feeding and washing?

Perhaps there would be a solution and allow people to turn back to humans again, which is why I'd also prefer not to kill. I'd rather go with than stay, then.

Example:
(TWD TV) If Daryl had the chance to lock his brother Merle and keep him alive regardless of being a walker, I think he'd might because he loved him despite of his badass attitude. Maybe he would, maybe not.

Comments

  • crispy01crispy01
    edited March 2013
    Cure is impossible. The Walkers stop regenerating most of their cells, and so they begin to degrade, hence why they look like corpses. If you ever cured them, they would die almost instantly, because of lack of functioning organs, and half of the brain being dormant. In terms of taking care of them, you could keep on in a cage, feed it raw meat every now and then. It doesn't matter really, it will die eventually and doesn't need food or anything.
  • Cthulhu42Cthulhu42
    edited March 2013
    Yeah, Hershel tried to put Shawn in the barn in vain hope he could be cured.

    Didn't turn out well.
  • mrkareemruizmrkareemruiz
    edited March 2013
    Daryl and Merle, sucks.
  • ZeruisZeruis
    edited March 2013
    Morgan
    in the comics took care of
    Duane
    after he had turned. He fed him meat off of various people.
  • Kiel555Kiel555
    edited March 2013
    Phil_TWD wrote: »
    Let's say someone you loved turned to a walker and you didn't want to kill or hurt her/him, would it be possible to take care?

    As in, feeding and washing?

    Perhaps there would be a solution and allow people to turn back to humans again, which is why I'd also prefer not to kill. I'd rather go with than stay, then.

    Example:
    (TWD TV) If Daryl had the chance to lock his brother Merle and keep him alive regardless of being a walker, I think he'd might because he loved him despite of his badass attitude. Maybe he would, maybe not.

    In a ZA, you may not have this level of capability. Still, if you're in a secure location and you are the one actively researching a cure, and you're close to a breakthrough, then keeping a walker within biting distance of you may seem like a good idea.

    If you're like the rest of us, say goodbye to your friend, put a bullet in its head and move on....quickly.
  • The FallenThe Fallen
    edited March 2013
    You could at least put "TV show spoilers" in the title. This is the forum for the game and that episode hasn't broadcast everywhere yet.
  • Mark$manMark$man
    edited March 2013
    Well... In my opinion it is too late to save walkers. Until you could stop them from turning, I mean, then it would be pointless. Once they turned, they were dead. You can't save dead people, so how can you cure them and bring them back to life? I'd rather just end them or flee if I couldn't.
  • Desmodus87Desmodus87
    edited March 2013
    If it were an "I am Legend" situation, SPOILERRRRRRRRSSSSSSSS where you're close to a breakthrough and need 'zombies' to experiment on, and you know that one day you will be able to fix them entirely, then yes, I'd probably keep my loved ones around.
    I wouldn't turn them back first, though. They'd be the last I turned back, barring they are near the point of no return. Do unzombied zombies keep the memories of eating people alive? Of turning people they loved into other zombies?
    I don't know that I'd want to come back if I had eaten my daughter to the point that she couldn't come back as a human being. I 'wake up' so to speak, and my daughter's so far gone she couldn't even be a zombie, let alone a cured human being. I have to walk around with the memory of her crying and asking Mommy to stop. Fuck all that - put a bullet in my brain!

    The only way I'd think it wasn't too late to save a zombie would be if they had never infected anyone else (minus a small bite), didn't have extensive damage (had their stomach/face eaten), and hadn't rotted too much. If those things had happened, I think it would be beyond cruel to bring them back.

    But as to IF it could happen SPOILERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Michonne and Governor both have zombified friends/family that they have taken care of. As well as Morgan.
  • MornaiMornai
    edited March 2013
    *comic spoilers*
    Hershel has this exact same reasoning and pretty much does the exact same thing in the comic, keeping his son Shawn alive among others as walkers in the barn. When they end up killing some of his family, he finally realizes that it isn't worth it.

    I personally wouldn't do it, but wouldn't stop someone else from doing it initially. It depends on how things go. If we have a situation where it kills someone or gets close to killing someone, it gets taken out.

    I don't think it would be a very good idea overall anyway, unless as mentioned you are a scientist or have one among you, or you know for certain a cure can be or will be developed. It's dangerous, and even if you remove all it's teeth or sow its mouth shut or something, it's still a heavy hit to morale.

    Who would want live in an area with a live walker hanging around? They smell horrid and they're a constant reminder of what caused you to be here struggling in the first place.
  • DreadMagusDreadMagus
    edited March 2013
    Take... care... of a walker?

    Does not compute. :D

    I don't care who it is, if it's dead and it's trying to eat me - I'mm'a gonna triple tap that mother.....
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