Life

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Series begun:
2011-09-28
Series updated:
2013-05-13
Works included:
20
Complete:
No
Word count:
38,217
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A zombie AU in which an undead minority, called "post-vitals", have been in existence since the early '60s.

Notes:

"In the United States and Canada, IHN survivors no longer lack for any rights under the law, though there are groups still challenging the progress that has been made. In particular, there has always been a vocal contingent who argue that when the heart stops, life stops. Fortunately in the US, since the early '70s, a person cannot be declared dead while there is still measurable brain activity. As post-vital brain activity is the only discernible distinction between a IHN survivor and an IHN fatality, by definition the word "alive" applies to them in a strictly legal sense. There is nothing preventing them from owning property, holding a job, or voting, so long as they are ruled mentally competent.

However, while theoretically the standards for competence are more or less the same standards applied to anyone else, post-onset evaluations commonly stress certain points that are considered to be of particular concern..."

(From Dead Voices: IHN and the Civil Rights Movement by Mark R. Rowland; 1999)

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