What does it mean to a Zombie to be "Whole?"

"What does it mean for a zombie to be "whole?" Who ever said that every zombie MUST have this or MUST have that. Why must zombie be pressed into the mold that our previous humans lives have place on us. We don't and we will never have too. WE ARE ZOMBIES, NOT HUMANS!"

When i heard these words, all those years ago from inside the East Coast Phoenix Inc. headquarters, i didn't think about them. I was a guard for the clinc on the ground floor. It was two days before the riots. We all thought they were lunatics, driven mad by their transformation from human to zombie, and that they were just protesting just to protest. The surgeons who were performing the surgical procedures always told us the same thing, "We are doing this to help zombies," and "Humans will keep trying to kill us unless we can relate, this is the first step."

I took me years to realize the truth, that we zombies DON'T need to change. HUMANS MUST ACCEPT US AS WE ARE! A zombie doesn't need four limbs, two hands, a whole head; we are all zombies, no matter what we look like or what we are missing. The zombie prosthetics which Phoenix Inc. was developing to replace the missing portions or body may have been meant to allow zombies to relate to humans, as a foundation for peace, but we are zombies and these prosthetics take away our zombanity. They are meant to control us; they were created to force us to mimic humans and now i see that.

I once used my abilities to protect those who openly sought to bring peace between zombies and humans by uniformity, but our strength isn't in being the same; our strength comes from our diversity, Humans gather strength from their varity in size, shape, and color, but our strength dosen't come from any of those, it comes from our diversity in body parts. Those who are missing an arm are brought closer together through co-operation and those who have only one leg teach others how to trust and support each other.

I believe all zombies are whole and that no zombie needs fake, metal limbs to be a zombie. Our zombanity comes from us, not from how many fingers or toes we have. We are zombies, ZOMBIES. Humans must learn to live with us, not force us to become them. ZOMBIES UNITED!