# What Happened to the Easter Zombies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 5, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887 "2015-04-05T16:41:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887/21 "2015-04-06T19:01:26Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > They were no more zombies than a persona who has been resuscitated in a ER is- this has nothing to do with zombies. > > However, what happened to them after is a point of biblical debate. Some say they went about normal lives then died normal deaths- other say they were apparitions only- others say “they must have gone to heaven with the Lord when He ascended.” I understand the zombies/no zombies issue. I’m just wondering what the difference it makes to this conversation (ie did I miss something) and the answer is really nothing substantial. Which is fine- I was just curious if I was missing something theologically important. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887/22 "2015-04-06T21:00:04Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Wouldn’t that be 43 days later? 1. You’re mixing your ordinal and your cardinal numbers. Jesus arose on the third day (ordinal) but it was two days (cardinal) after the cruxifiction. But he ascended after 40 days (not on the 40th day). ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887/23 "2015-04-06T22:47:28Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > …zombies are undead… You shouldn’t use that term. They prefer to be called the _living impaired_. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887/24 "2015-04-06T23:12:21Z")
[They still show up every Easter](https://sierrahouk.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/dsc00050.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887/25 "2015-04-06T23:22:42Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > You shouldn’t use that term. They prefer to be called the _living impaired_. Or “differently alive”. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887/26 "2015-04-07T03:42:55Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > You shouldn’t use that term. They prefer to be called the _living impaired_. > [@Mangetout](#): > > Or “differently alive”. How about _metabolically challenged_? ---
**Author:** ![sich\_hinaufwinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sich\_hinaufwinden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sich_hinaufwinden)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887/27 "2015-04-07T05:05:23Z")
> [@D18](#): > > 1. You’re mixing your ordinal and your cardinal numbers. Jesus arose on the third day (ordinal) but it was two days (cardinal) after the cruxifiction. But he ascended after 40 days (not on the 40th day). Since the question is what hapened to the zombies, are we counting from when they got re-animated, which was at the resurrection? So what does that make the number? I don’t understand if the 3 days is part of the 40 or before it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887/28 "2015-04-07T21:41:33Z")
I don’t know if there’s any Scriptural support for this idea, or if any church has officially endorsed it, but there’s certainly a long-standing folk belief that “What the Good Lord has raised stays raised”, and that therefore none of those brought back by Jesus (the “Easter zombies”, nor Lazarus, nor the centurion’s daughter, etc.) could thereafter die. Maybe they ascended to Heaven bodily, or maybe they still walk the Earth, but death is a one-time thing that they’ve already done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-easter-zombies/716887.md?page=1)