Okay, the dead are already here. Hopefully, they are outside of your place of residence.

The dead, especially those who were dear to us in life, have traditionally been treated with respect. Who can forget that touching moment in the British documentary "Shawn of the Dead," when the hero's dear mother, bitten by a neighbor, turns into an Undead? Someone made a point that a society may be judged by how it treats its dead. Whatever your beliefs, the body is no longer the residence of the spirit; that which animated the body in life is gone in death.

However: the fact remains that the dead, once they are permanently dead.... stink. They rot. They decompose (to put it nicely). And if the outside of your compound resembles a mosh pit of maimed bodies (which, of course, you have maimed with your zombie disposal kit), these body parts must be disposed of quickly, and above all, sanitarily. Moving the bodies without coming into contact with bodily fluids (which we all know contains the zombie virus) becomes a major task. Even using the most mechanical means (hay hooks, wheelbarrows, even earth moving machines) poses a danger to the operator who wishes ot tidy up the outside of his residence, so that sheep may safely graze.

So how do we dispose of sever tens or hundreds of dismembered zombie bodies? Many if not all of them are still somewhat revivified; we've all seen documentaries of dismembered body parts trying to carry out the zombie imperitave, i.e. BRAAAAINS.

Chemicals exist which help a lot. In the case of a single-person zombie attack, a quantity of baking soda sprinkled in the body bag will suffice to keep the odor down for a couple of days. Quick lime will help in the decomposition of the zombie body after it is buried.

But large numbers of zombie bodies present a problem with groundwater contanimation if they are buried. Burning is an option, but such a number of bodies will require vast amounts of fuel.

This thread is now open for discussion. Keep it clean.

Find an abandoned house, and start filling it up. When It's full, light it up.

the funeral pyres lit up the night,it was ......medival.

^^And from that, you could also render your own zed soap. Never an excuse to be 'unclean' in an unclean world again!!!!

Fight Club zombie soap. Selling Zed's fat ass back to him since 2012.

I wonder if Cold Steel could be persuaded to make "Zombie Hooks?" They'd look like hay bale hooks but longer.

Hay bale hook:




Extended Zombie hook:

Hawaii, aside from being strategically isolated has solved this problem. The "bait" stands on one side of the Kilauea lava flow and lure the zed heads toward you. They won't make it through before burning away completely...

Now the challenge becomes, how do you get all the zed's to head for volcanoes?!?!? Even a moat around the house full of fire would require constant fueling.

Zed soap....I sounds interesting...just don't wash the kids' mouth out with it!

nice..

Diesel wood chipper.

The key here is Diesel. Because you collect the shreds or sludge, boil it to separate out the oils/fats from the remains of the zombie corpses, and presuming you can find enough methanol and lye in the surrounding ruins/abandoned buildings, you can make enough bio-diesel to keep the chipper running.

Unfortunately, ambulatory zombies can't be trained to do manual labor, but perhaps one could press gang them together into work teams with chains to pull sledges of other zombies or zombie parts to the chipper, by muzzling them, and then having uninfected humans walk in front of the team so the zombies follow out of instinct.

Seriously though, I bet you could make some money off this around Halloween(Samhain).
In cold climates using zeds as a wall or barrier could work.I remember reading that the Marines stacked chicom bodies to use as cover at Chosin reservoir.
Wood chippered zeds could be used for garden fertilizer,assuming no toxic chemicals.
Where I'm at I'll have to use the burning option;too humid of a climate.

I believe something similar to that was done in DbD2

Only problem is though, while it may get rid of the zeds, with the drought we are in, it may be a continental wide disaster....