Ok, I started a new game the other day, and all was going well until one of the villagers ate a berry that the shamans warned them about. Needless to say the little guy is no longer with us. (I like my little people to be adventurous, even at a cost.) Since it was a new game I didn't have many tech points, no new spirituality, so basically for a while I had a corpse on the ground. I don't know what possessed me to do this, but I then put my then child on the corpse, and the message came up that the villager had improved in healing! Sure enough, the healing bar in the Details menu was rising every time I put him on the corpse. Anyway. I just thought that was a little amusing, yet morbid, way of getting skill points.

wierd! lol! I'll have to try that sometime. lol!

Look at it this way: doctors learn a lot from autopsies :P

Perhaps it's a hint of a new ability in a later version of the game: Bringing villagers back to life! Hmmm.... perhaps not.

Ha Ha, I don't think it is a sign of things to come. This is labeled as a feature since it does not effect the out come of the game and it lets you increase a villagers healing skill! You could also call it a cheat if you like.

And it's a significant improvement over the early iterations of the game when the peeps would do all sorts of *other* things with the corpses. ewwwwwwwwwww

LOL, I wasn't even going to mentioned that! Some things are best left unknown.

You guys never told me they were zombies on Isola

Ooooo! I want to hear about this! Anything Evil Dead like? Any villagers with a chainsaw for a hand named Ash?

LadyCFII opened that can of worms; I'll let her respond (if she can).