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This is a truly weird question that came up at home today. I think it is way more fun to ask youse guys than to Google as if I was serious about needing to know.

Do the undead feel cold?

The process of decomposition releases heat, at least it does in compost heaps. So, do zombies feel warm or cold?

Vampires drink blood from living victims. Is that so they can, temporarily, have warm bodies?

If you're close enough to know the answer to the initial question, would you tell a living person as you're most likely about to become an undead yourself?

Having thrown these speculations into the ether, as it were, I will now leave to finish the laundry and feed my compost heap.

pixiedust 8 June 3
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Seems like if that were the case for vampires then they could easily get around having to feed on live blood by using some kind of heater lol. But the undead are reanimated by magic or whatever so who knows lol

Now, I'm wondering if hot-blooded people make better snacks ... hmmm

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I love this sort of thinking! It's sort of like challenging a long accepted theory. My guess is that these particular vampire characters are like refrigerators in that anything that goes into them is immediately started in the cooling process and fairly quickly the temperature goes back down to the average in the being. Now with the living dead, they are already an enigma. How can it be possible to be opposite ends of a common spectrum at the same time. If they're dead, then they are dead. Perhaps a name change is needed to say, the non-living or the active corpses?

I like active corpses - sounds like some of the people I meet at the gym 😉

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Since there's no such thing, you can pretty much make up any answer you want - it can't be shown to be wrong.

irl, someone would try, I'm sure. 😀

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I don't know, but they could use a really big box of bandaids and some Neosporin.

Patch bandaids, perhaps?

@pixiedust lol

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Depends on the source material. According to Max Brooks’ Zombie Survival Guide, the undead have no feeling except the craving for living flesh.

I think some movies (Fido maybe) have shown zombies to feel the impact of weather.

One of the saddest scenes in "Insidious" was the one with the sobbing ghost in the rain. I felt so sorry for her. (I also felt cold and wet - what a way to spend even an imaginary afterlife.)

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My assumption is that zombies would feel cold to the touch, because at a certain point, for some reason the decomposition process stalled....otherwise they couldn't continue existing. Although, if they did keep decomposing, yes they would feel warm to the touch, because decomposition does in fact release heat.

Vampires would follow the same logic as I used above. It is an interesting concept to think that vampires are just cold-blooded human beings who have to feed to be able to do anything.

Now, I have visions of vampires basking on hot rocks in the sun just like a lounge of lizards. 😀

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Wouldn't the answer depend on the external conditions? Regardless of the heat release that occurs during decay, a zombie that finds itself in the middle of tundra would freeze the remains of its genitals off...

Now I need to scrub my brain to erase that image 😀

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