"As our bodies have physical limitations in life, it is as so in death. The only reason we aren't piles of dirt on the floor is because we are living tissue. the Undead are not living incase you didn't already know this... ... thier bodies do not carry on any of lifes processes, therefore they begin to decompose as a normal dead body would other than the fact that they want to rip you limb from limb. "Hollywood" although entertaining, has yet still neglected to capture the truth. If I was a track runner in life, of coarse i'm going to chase you in the afterlife; unless my body (legs) are damaged to the point my bones, muscle and or tendons can't respond to the activity of running. When you see in movies, a zombie getting knee capped and continuing to persue in sprint form...BS!! knees are knees dead or alive...no knees = NO walking PERIOD. and if a zombie can't reach you, it can't bite you. Bodies go through stages after death... 4 stages of MORTIS, not to mention the unmistakable stench (i've smelled personally all too often; even held a number of actual human corpses/pieces). Any-hoo, If u can survive the initial outbreak and make it up to a month; all of the zombies will have broken down past the limit of movement (even though it is cool to think zombies can think, react at 2x normal speed and run flat out at a constant.
Long story short...if your serious about survival get your stockpile of nonperishable food ready (2+ months worth all depending on your family size), something familiar and practical to protect yourself with (meaning if you don't know how to operate and maintain a M-16, SG-550 or a Benelli M4 then it's probably not a great idea to be weilding one), a safe defendable place (with safe exits), a radio and bunker down till the stenches burn out."

"Nah, best thing to do is prepare for the worst imaginaly possible scenario, because then, nothing is worse so your already set ;)"