Quote Originally Posted by RedMage125 View Post
Also, to wit: If your buddy is killed, and you take a finger from his body to take back to town to get a Resurrection, but some necromancer turns that body into a zombie in the meantime? No resurrection. His body could be disintegrated and True Resurrection would work, but make him a zombie, and lock that zombie in a lead-lined box with a permanent Nondetection and Dimensional Anchor on it, drop it in the ocean? No mortal magic can bring your friend back to life, and you're gonna have to find that box manually to kill the zombie. So there is SOME connection between the soul of the person who passed and the undead creature.
Yes, but if you do it in the reverse order it works fine.