Their hair was also removed (presumably to make cloth). You could also skin the bodies to make leather before recycling the rest into fertilizer.
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they actually use dead bodies to crash test cars along with the more well known crash test dummies.
Criminal’s June 2, 2017, podcast – http://www.thisiscriminal.com/episode-68-all-the-time-in-the-world – was about TSU.
The Walking Dead, as I recall, are basically able to keep shuffling along forever without sustenance. They’re basically free energy. Just put them all in a giant hamster wheel and you’ll never have to worry about power again.
They can be used for surgical practice in real life.
Some settings like DC’s Limbo Town reanimate the dead and use them as a labor force.
I recall one novel where the locals distilled a liqueur named “Rotting Man” out of them.
In *The Court of a Thousand Suns *the Tahn extract a powerful drug from the brains of corpses that died in extreme terror.
They used to make paint from ground-up mummies, and it looked damn good too. Presumably the corpse has to be mummified or you wouldn’t get that dark, rich, creamy tone.
In* Midworld,* the vegetative planetary overmind uses the brains of dead humans (who bury their dead in large trees as it happens) as the basis for growing itself a fully sapient forebrain-equivalant.