">You also see a mange-covered rotting Rakash which appears dead"

Well, duh . . .

Maybe it's time for a new phrase to identify undead that have become simply dead once more.

>Maybe it's time for a new phrase to identify undead that have become simply dead once more.

It was undead. It is now just dead. Where's the discrepency?

It's no longer running around doing things and trying to eat you. It's mouldering on the roadside, being eaten by undead zombie flies.