# My parents want to be eaten by zombies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255 "2011-02-13T23:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/1 "2011-02-13T23:47:49Z")
They’re currently looking at real estate. Both of the homes they’re seriously considering are within walking/shuffling distance from cemeteries. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/2 "2011-02-13T23:53:58Z")
Hey, dead people make the best neighbors. They’re very quiet, and they don’t ask to borrow stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/3 "2011-02-14T00:36:07Z")
Maybe they like the idea of that Last Commute being a short trip. Plus, what **Alice The Goon** said. I’d take a cemetery over noisy neighbors any day. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/4 "2011-02-14T02:05:26Z")
Well, good. Someone has to slow down the zombies so the rest of us can get away. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/5 "2011-02-14T02:16:04Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Hey, dead people make the best neighbors. They’re very quiet, and they don’t ask to borrow stuff. Yeah, and flowers are readily available and easy to acquire. Saves a trip to the florist. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/6 "2011-02-14T02:20:05Z")
Perhaps your parents are vampires or ghouls. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/7 "2011-02-14T02:22:00Z")
Yeah, my sister lived next to a cemetery. She claimed the residents thereof were the best neighbors she ever had. She didn’t bother them, and they didn’t bother her. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/8 "2011-02-14T02:24:40Z")
Friend of mine lives next to one, says it is very quiet on Halloween… ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/9 "2011-02-14T02:37:57Z")
I live by two cemeteries and a popular bar. You can probably guess which neighbors I like best. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/10 "2011-02-14T03:31:59Z")
And two years from now, when someone resurrects this thread, we can call them over to protect us. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/11 "2011-02-14T03:35:39Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Hey, dead people make the best neighbors. They’re very quiet, and they don’t ask to borrow stuff. …except the occasional brain. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/12 "2011-02-14T03:39:04Z")
Just introduce them to the SDMB. They’ll be overwhelmed by the zombies pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/13 "2011-02-14T04:14:36Z")
Hey, cemeteries are great places to be. People are just dying to get in. ---
**Author:** ![ImNotPaulAvery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@ImNotPaulAvery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ImNotPaulAvery)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/14 "2011-02-14T04:57:29Z")
> [@Silvorange](#): > > I live by two cemeteries and a popular bar. You can probably guess which neighbors I like best. Heh, I used to live right next to a large cemetery and a couple college bars. I much preferred the dead folks to the half-dead ones. I lived next to that cemetery for two years and didn’t witness a single creepy or unexplained occurrence. I was kind of disappointed. I also had the idea to set up a cemetery live-cam website but the trees obscured the view outside my window. ---
**Author:** ![Makeitstop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Makeitstop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Makeitstop)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/15 "2011-02-14T05:01:09Z")
They had better have a zombie plan that involes a helicopter on top of their roof. Quickest way to avoid the initial infection. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/16 "2011-02-14T05:11:41Z")
I once lived above a funeral home. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/17 "2011-02-14T05:16:06Z")
I live right next to Rock Creek Church Cemetery ([Rock Creek Cemetery - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Creek_Cemetery)) which has all these great old crypts and has some famous for DC types buried there. I even walk in it at night. I love the idea of Zombie Alice Roosevelt, Zombie Upton Sinclair, and Zombie Tim Russert. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/18 "2011-02-14T05:21:14Z")
Wouldn’t Zombie Upton Sinclair organize the zombie workers into some sort of union collective? What do we want? Brains! When do we want them? Brains! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/19 "2011-02-14T06:11:10Z")
My favorite fact about Upton Sinclair’s modest grave is that it is directly across from the family crypt of the guy who invented Wonder Bread, not sure old Upton wanted to spend eternity looking at the grand tomb of a food industrialist. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255/20 "2011-02-14T10:09:33Z")
I grew up next to a cemetery, never thought anything of it. All my friends though knew lots and lots of ghost stories about that particular cemetery, but I never was able to experience any of it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-parents-want-to-be-eaten-by-zombies/571255.md?page=2)