@Kangutso
Well. What's the point in calling them 'dead'. If that's the case then it would be harder to gage.
They do decay, I'm pretty sure, eventually becoming living skeletons. They also have no physical sensations or feelings once they resurrect. Although this does mean freedom from hunger, thirst, exhaustion and pain, it also strips them of the ability to sleep, dream, or feel physical comfort. This is a guess, but I don't think they'd be able to really enjoy their senses any more. They can probably see and hear fine enough, but to appreciate music on a physical level, or enjoy a meal? Probably not.
Which might not bother some people all that much, honestly. Those who derive most of their life satisfaction out of knowing rather than feeling, and don't mind the idea that they're stuck on Galbar for another slow hundred years or so to watch their children age past them and die, they'll probably adapt to undeath pretty well and make themselves useful.
For those who consider resurrection a curse, if only past the point where they say goodbye to their families, there are Lenslings.
Urtelem relationships between herds, with zombies and Lenslings, and with the stone calendar system are all things I've got scheduled to look at as soon as I teach them a written language. I feel like I've been neglecting their perspective a little. .-.
