Tuesday, March 29, 2011

What the Guide Doesn't Prepare You For

This book is excellent for teaching survival for a world overrun by the undead, but what about preparing you for the emotional damage? The Zombie Survival Guide won't prepare you for the damage done by losing someone to Solanum. What if your son, your daughter, your significant other, and other friends and family contracted Solanum from a Zombie? As you watch them get bitten, know they're going to transform, will you be able to kill them for the safety of you and the other survivors?
Watching someone you love get bit by a Zombie is heartbreaking because you know they're doomed. When a Zombie bites, a person becomes a Zombie and is dead. If you or your group members kill them, they are still dead. Either way, the person is dead.
How can a person deal with the emotional damage of losing the majority of their friends and family during a Class 3 outbreak? Would they even have the will to survive? Why live when you have no one to love?
How can a person deal if their entire group was eliminated by Zombies? They're all alone, basically the last human alive, similar to Will Smith in I Am Legend. When his dog died, it was almost as if he died inside. He was completely alone.
As helpful as this book is for survival, it won't prepare you for the emotional hardships a person will have to face. I guess that factor is the one you teach yourself how to survive.

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