If you’ve ever gotten an alert where a person might have been injured, the phrase “conscious and breathing” is often used to describe their state. It’s a curious turn of phrase, and makes one imagine the other possible permutations.  A nice table will be helpful here.

	Conscious	Unconscious
Breathing	OK	Just Unconscious
Not Breathing	Zombie	Dead

As you can see, DC Alerts really has their bases covered!  Hopefully, with their help, I’ll increase my odds of surviving.

In Case Of Zombies by Drunken Monkey used under a CC-BY-NC license.