Board Thread:Manga Discussion/@comment-26912075-20161224030557/@comment-4148373-20181112185549

Zodazzle wrote: I don't think vampires or zombies can really qualify as "dead". Vampires are just a person that wore the Stone Mask and was stabbed, nothing about them being dead. Same thing with zombies. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think they might be considered "not alive" in the same way a virus isn't considered "alive": the process that makes them vampires or zombies may remove some trait that would qualify them as alive. I certainly recall sections where they seem to be considered non-living, and the fact that Dio managed to revive two people who had been dead for a few centuries certainly seems to indicate it's not just a transmitted infection or unlocking the "potential" of the living. But I don't think they're exactly "dead", either. Which is probably why they're called "undead", now that I think about it.