All they wanna do is eat your brains. We're at an impasse here. Maybe we should compromise.

The eye develop from brain tissue, so I wouldn't be so sure ...

That's what the video explains as well. Killing the parents will make init adopt and kill the children in the process. Problem is, that you might not want to stop / kill the parent process, depending on what you are doing. One should be very careful of doing so.

To be clear, merely stopping the parent (SIGSTOP) will not do the job. You have to kill or otherwise end it.

But where is the fun then? ;p On a more serous note, yes I agree. In most cases (probably all cases) there should be no need to get rid of zombie processes.