Found this about Zombi U

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sethnintendo said:
Like the death / respawn in the game where your former person that dies is a zombie carrying all your old gear. "Chances are that you will never find them again". Yea, right I would slaughter every single zombie till I found my old gear.

Huh?  I played the game a bit at Nintendo's event.  After I was killed, the Zombi of my last character hung around the area where I died.