Rulings not rules, wot?You think there's not an obvious unwritten "IMO" in their post? I'd be surprised to find it wasn't intended as implicit.

Rulings not rules, wot?You think there's not an obvious unwritten "IMO" in their post? I'd be surprised to find it wasn't intended as implicit.
Well in most cases PCs are going to use this spell on humanoids they violently killed a few minutes earlier. So they are typically going to be burned, chopped, stabbed etc. You hacked them to death when you killed them the first time,Really? The Animate Undead spell says nothing about healing or heads and body parts stitching themselves back together and while I’d be ok with a weirdly articulated pile of animated bone, actually allowing corpses to repair themselves I think is beyond the spell RAW.
And if any pile of body parts can make a zombie, whats the point of Flesh golems etc?
This is what I was really asking.If we're gonna get all rules-lawyer-y, then the OP's question becomes: 1) Does a Zombie go back to being a "humanoid" corpse after it dies, like it was before it became a zombie, or does it remain an "undead" corpse?
People die easy, a persons skin suffers 40% burns they die from pain trauma, a stab wound bleeds out and they die but the corpse stays intact.Well in most cases PCs are going to use this spell on humanoids they violently killed a few minutes earlier. So they are typically going to be burned, chopped, stabbed etc. You hacked them to death when you killed them the first time,
So how does it do this when you cast it on the human guards you just slaughtered .... or do you have to go to the morgue to find pristine corpses to use?
Can you cite any rules to support this interpretation?
You cant be an undead if you are either;
1) Alive, or
2) Dead.
If I animate Timmys (a human) corpse, I create an undead monster using Timmys body (and arguably soul or spirit) that is neither alive, nor dead, while it exists.
His corpse doesn't remain undead, once it is no longer undead (and is back to being just dead Timmy).
You cant have a 'dead undead', anymore than you can have a 'living undead'. An undead that is either alive, or dead, is not (by definition), undead.
It’s no longer undead. It’s an object. It’s a corpse. That’s my opinion. I find JCs interpretation of monster types very weird.A zombie, now being undead, is no longer a humanoid and therefore does not meet the requirements of the spell. So, no, that won’t work at our table.