The Draugr and Transhumanism

The Draugr reflects an anxiety of those people about dealing with the dead. Burials are very important part of their culture because it's helping people to transfer them to the other world. And that same anxiety is what you've just identified in the zombie as like in the rootless man, in the modern man with no gods and no hereafter. There's a kind of death. The spectra of death is like staring into the void. So even like the Catholics have the momento mori, the skull is a way of like reminding them to reign their ego in, because they're going to die and life is finite. It's quite a musing sort of diversion for these people