The Walking Dead Prompt

Immediately after reading prompt D I thought about AMC’s The Walking Dead series. I specifically thought of a few episodes from season two when a group of survivors of the apocalypse find another group with land. The owner of the land is Hershel Greene; he has plenty of pasture, a barn, and a fairly large house. Living with Hershel is what is left of his family. One of the survivors from the traveling group named Glenn wanted to meet Hershel’s daughter Maggie up in the loft of the barn. Little did he know that the barn was locked up concealing many walkers until he reached the loft. Maggie received the message too late so she was unable to stop Glenn from going up to the loft. From that moment it really made me wonder; could I somehow puncture something that used to be human’s brain? What if the walker was somebody I knew? Or if it was somebody I had never seen before? Would I have a problem ending what is now their life? Is it right to end the “life” of a walker?
The prompt then tells me I have locked my closest family members who have become walkers in a barn and I am unsure what to do with them. There is a rumor floating around that maybe this is something curable. I think my thought process here would be really complicated. On one hand, these are the people I am …show more content…
I would find more peace knowing full well that the people I care most about have ceased to live; that my family is really dead, a true death. Keeping undead people “alive” for a hope that may not even exist is something that I do not see as a viable solution. There probably is no worry about time, considering obviously at this point in life nobody has a stable life with a job, but I see it as a waste of time when one could go off and try finding more people that have survived rather than sticking to one area hoping that my undead family members that I have locked in a barn can be