Clarification: I mean a person who has actually been dead for a while and suddenly they’re alive again

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    9 days ago

    I imagine some religious folks would kill them as an affront to their religion or conversely imprisoned in secret government lab for testing.

  • Otherbarry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    If they’ve been dead for a while then the body is going to be quite decayed so that unfortunate person would end up dying again immediately.

    Unless you’re suggesting this thing that came to life is no longer human. So in that case decayed body/flesh, missing organs/bodyparts, etc. no longer prevent it from “life”. But I’d argue that isn’t a human coming back to life, more like a corpse transforming into something else.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    They would need to have their brain destroyed or head severed to stop them from eating people and making more like themselves.

  • QubaXR@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Either nobody would believe it, or it would be on every screen and headline for a week, before the next news cycle Swiss the attention away.

  • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 days ago

    A few months ago, we had a question about what would happen if necromancy was possible and an undead was called as a court witness. I gave a rather fun-to-write, tongue-in-cheek answer, which might be germane to your question too. Here’s just a snippet:

    So now we come back to zombies. Would a jury be able to set aside their shock, horror, and awe about a zombie in court that they could focus on being the finder of fact? If a zombie says they’re an eye-witness to a mugging, would their lack of actual eyeballs confuse the jury? Even more confusing would be a zombie that is testifying as an expert witness. Does their subject matter need to be recent? What if the case needs an expert on 17th Century Parisian fashion and the undead is from that era and worked in haute couture? Are there no fashion historians who could provide similar expert opinions?

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    We have examples of people being misidentified as dead, who rise either at the hospital, mortuary, or after.

    It is speculated this is one of reasons ‘wakes’ were established, just to make sure the loved one was well and truly dead before committing them to earth.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    9 days ago

    Depending on your definition people actually have come back from the dead. Friend of mine for one. I’m lucky to live in that timeline.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
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    9 days ago

    Nobody would believe it, even if there was a live video feed of the death and the resurrection.

  • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The definition of death is that it is not reversible, so it would mean that the person never was dead in the first place.

    • lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Thanks, I’ll keep that take in my pocket for later. “Your honor, you can’t possibly prove that in the future a superintelligence won’t be able to reconstruct enough of the victim’s brain to resurrect them, and hence they aren’t dead and I can’t have committed murder!”.