Undead

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Spike, a vampire, is technically dead but appears alive.

Undead, or living dead, was a being whose body was technically dead but still existed on a physical plane as if they were alive.^{[citation needed]}

Description

To achieve an undead state, an individual would have to be brought back from the dead or killed in a manner that allowed them to reanimate. Magic was often involved. Generally speaking, undead beings had some alteration to a being's form or faculty.^{[citation needed]}

The standards of living for the undead were generally different; for example, vampires and zompires gained the desire and need to feed on mammalian blood. Furthermore, they lost their need to breathe, and their hearts ceased beating.^{[citation needed]}

Vampires retained their core personalities and ability to think and make decisions, though its impact was lessened greatly by the loss of their souls. Zombies, on the other hand, usually lost their conscious mental capabilities and essentially became walking corpses. However, some retained their mind and personality. Ghosts were the spirits of once-living people who were stuck on Earth. They were incorporeal but possessed the minds of the people they once were.^{[citation needed]}

Resurrected individuals were not considered undead because they returned as living beings.^{[citation needed]}

Examples

An Inca Princess was ritually killed and mummified. She returned to life because of a cursed seal and became a living girl. After she stopped feeding on the life forces of others, she reverted to a mummy and died.^{[citation needed]}

Chris Epps brought back his brother Daryl through a scientific procedure which left him in a Frankenstein's Monster-like state.^{[citation needed]}

The 314 Project was a military operation aimed at creating a race of bio-mechanical demonoids, where dead soldiers would be scientifically reanimated with cybernetic enhancements and demonic body parts.Adam, the very first out of the only two Bio-mechanical demonoids to exist, reanimated Professor Maggie Walsh and Doctor Francis Angleman as rotting, visibly dead servants.^{[citation needed]}

Wolfram & Hart had a standard perpetuity clause in their contracts, which allowed their employees to remain in the firm after death as undead, immortal beings with the signs of their death still visible.^{[citation needed]}

Warren Mears was brought back as a skinless being after being skinned alive, who could only be kept alive with magic. The end of magic led to his second death.^{[citation needed]}