Truly Undead?

Dr. Hugo Pecos makes a pretty controversial claim - one that I wholeheartedly disagree with. He says, "despite appearances to the contrary, a person infected with the zombie virus never actually dies before awakening as a zombie."

He buttresses the claim by pointing out that though the zombie no longer has a heartbeat the muscles now handle the circulation. Where does Hugo come up with this information? From his own "studies"? Here's the deal, Hugo - there's a reason why zombie movies continually show the zombies as having died before reanimation and that is because they actually do die.

Modern zombological research generally rejects Zombus Caribbeanus Vivus as a legitimate zombie. That reason is because the zombie is not ACTUALLY dead. Every other type of known zombie is physically dead - especially sans the frontal lobe. Perhaps I'll attempt to contact the good doctor to find out his definition of dead.