On the BBC News website today there is an article about preppers. It includes this definition:

'Zombie - The name for the unprepared and aggressive masses who may want to steal a prepper's resources'.

Is that what people here mean by zombie?

I always assumed we used the zombie apocalypse as a way to discuss EOT scenarios without it getting bogged down in discussions of the cause.
It's such an absurd idea no one is going to bother arguing 'but how is something going to heal whatever killed them? repair all the damage done by the body rotting, make muscles and cartilege miraculously re-appear......"
qjs