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Using fire to incinerate the dead undead is always a good idea. Using fire against the living dead...not such a good idea. Like Pedro said...they will walk around on fire igniting anything around them until they fall because their muscles have been burned away. The corpse itself may still be "alive" even after that. The fire and the heat may not do enough damage to the brain inside the skull. High heat will crack the skull but may not damage the brain either. "

"Yeah that's never made any sense to me. Dead things don't feel pain. That's one of the nice things about being dead. They may be primativly reacting to the sight of the fire like all animals would. It is natural to fear fire. Fire hurts.

I have also never agreed that the undead are somehow more flammable just because they are undead. It takes a long time and a lot of heat to fully cremate a human corpse. Just dousing a zombie in gas is not going to stop it. The gas will burn off well before enough damage is inflicted.

There is no solid proof that Romero's zombies feel pain. They do seem to recoil from fire at times. This poses an interesting question then. Why does fire damage seem to "hurt" them or cause them to react...but bullets, blades and general dismemberment damage is completely ignored as if it never happened. "

"Brain destruction is really one of the sure fire ways to destroy a human body. A body can live for a bit missing any major organ, but when there aren't electrical impulses coming from the brain, everything shuts down nearly instantly.

Maybe the only way to kill a zombie is to shoot them in the foot, but wouldn't it be more practical that a headshot would be effective in any situation?"