… Who knows… I give it 5 to 10 years after the worst of the outbreak before the Zombies die off naturally. Think about it. It takes about two years for an untreated human body to decompose fully. If it’s a virus, it may not hit everywhere. Islolated islands may not catch it at all or catch it early enough to stop it. Up north and deep down south where it’s colder, maybe the virus won’t be able to survive. What’ll be the next big important step is what’ll happed in the next decade when the last zombie dies? Everyone across the world has a different opinion about how to create a utopia. There’s no garantee that just the good and kind-hearted will survive. It’s simply not our nature. Evil will always exist in some shape or form. When the time comes, we’ll see what happens…

(*not saying that there have/have not been zombie outbreaks in the past)

Also for some other things to consider, How are the zombies, Zombies? The zombies cause could range from all sorts of things,
They could be living people struck by some kind of disease that reduces their minds to a base level of bodily functions, For this there could be a cure. Or they could actually develop intellegence on their own maybe (assuming they arn’t killed off by the disease), For this you would also have to account if it could pass through animals (no offense but if insects were to get disease we’d have no chance no matter what your plans are).
They could be an actual infusion of dark magic, For this unless you somehow discover a sort of ‘white’ magic there is probably one way to remove the threat, and thats to finish them off, assuming that their magic doesn’t stop their rotting or makes them kill-proof. This would probably not be contagious to other species, but it would depend on the ’spell’
And than theres the ever so popular, Zombie, ‘re-death’ by destroying the brain, However, if the brain is required why not the heart? lungs? other vital organs? This is probably highly contagious to animals, because it has no logical (to us) explanation, and would probably create super zombies.
Also for the last one, watch out for people with guns following the zombies and shooting at survivors if Resident Evil taught us anything at all.

Then it would be in some type of containment areas, guarded by military, such as 28 Weeks Later? I would imagine so, along with the random rougue band of people who have setup camp somewhere and learned how to survive.

I feel that it will all be circular… We will rebuild and feel that the new world is somehow a new and improved version of what previously existed. And to some extent, it will be. Yet it will only be a matter of time before another attack of the undead will come. I cannot help but wonder if the attacks will become more violent and more difficult to contain each time they happen.

“I actually have a belief that it will not be as lasting as believed
I think that most zombies will dry out in about 2 weeks to a months time due to no water intake. In dryer climates it will be faster. “

That is a great and interesting theory. I too believe that whatever outbreak happens, it will not last forever and will see an end for one reason or another.

Well, yes and no. Resurrecting the dead doesn’t seem scientifically possible (never say never, but I wouldn’t hold out hope).

However, there are some interesting issues here. First of all, we don’t really know what “dead” is. Seriously, look it up, it’s actually a really interesting problem - death is defined differently in different countries. If someone is on a ventilator, all their organs bar one working fine, are they dead? What if that one is the brain? How low does brain activity have to be before you’re “dead”? And how do you accurately measure that? Death is pretty difficult to define (and it’s even been misdiagnosed, in a few bizarre cases).

Secondly, is a zombie “dead”? As a classical definition of a zombie then yes, they have to be in order to be called a zombie.

Still, if my friend was walking around attacking people, with bits of him falling off and rotting (and especially if I was still able to “kill” him with a headshot)…I’d think a lot of things, but I’m not sure I’d think he was dead.

I’m not saying that a “cure” for zombism is possible, or that zombies are alive. I’m just saying that we shouldn’t rule out anything without looking into it first. After all, these things used to be people. People we loved.

I think we owe it to them to understand what happened to them. To help them, if we can (even if all that means is killing them with dignity). We also owe it to ourselves to research this disease if we ever want to beat it.

And yes, some people may well decide to rape, pillage and murder. I;m not sure if lumping them in with the zeds is the best way to preserve our humanity, but in terms of survival I can see why some unspeakable things might be necessary. To kill another human being, even in defense of yourself or others, is never something to be proud of, even when it’s perfectly understandable.

Hopefully like minded people who care about society as a whole would ban together and the laws we still regard would still stand. I for one would not be put out by taking the lawless and the ones who have little disregard for humanity and lumping them in with the zeds. He who has the guns gets the gold for all the good it would do. I would do what needs to be done to protect mine and any other that would still hold the belief that we are fighting for our humanity as well as our lives.