system
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human
[The Walking Dead] How buried corpses whose heads were intact upon dying trying to get out of their tombs? Did the disease affect people already dead when it broke out?
gpt
From what we've seen, the disease/virus/whatever it is that causes people to reanimate when they die does NOT affect those who were already dead when the infection began, so those who died prior are just sitting there rotting away. Those who were buried traditionally after the infection began are probably doomed to just scratch endlessly away at their coffins until they cave in and either crush them or they burrow their way upwards.