If zombies decompose, wouldn’t you just have to wait it out until they turn into skeletons? What do you think?

Rot in warm weather or freeze in the cold, this is one of the reasons why I always thought a “zombie apocalypse” would end very quickly.

i think zombie fictions (vs non-fiction? lol) normally don’t address this or sneak in that bacteria and the decomposition process is interrupted by the zombie condition/virus/parasite then normal body functions that pertain to ligaments or muscles are maintained by consumption of calories. When there is a lack of food, the zombies will revert to an inactive state, or hibernation… maybe similiar to a snake b/c snake do no mentally hibernate.

but, 28 days later, is a zombie flick built on the premise you just have to wait for them to decompose.

The amount of maggots and flies in the world would be staggering. I think you would have to wait that plague out as well.

Flies are one thing, but imagine biting ones. Like a city full of horseflies. You uh, don’t want to leave your little apartment/ open that window up for a few months now do you?

I hope you got some seasons to catch up on and are willing to be some TV zombie yourself.

Skeleton war seems a lot more intimidating…I’ll take my chances with the zombies.

In some variations of the Zombie story, the virus that reanimates the corpse also slows the decomposition. This was the case in World War Z, and is alluded to in The Walking Dead. In other instances, the Zombie doesn’t care about the decomposition level and just wants brains. The “Zombies” in 28 Days Later weren’t true Zombies as they were still living and breathing humans, just with their aggression levels spiked at 50 on a scale of 1 to 10. They withered away as anything will that runs out of food.

Short answer, it depends on the writer what the rules of the Zombie are.