Hello. I'm new here. Sorry to barge in like this...
I don't think Bootstrap was undead. For one thing, it's clearly said that they drowned him. You don't drown a corpse. I was wondering about that for a while, but then I realized that he probably didn't take a medallion from the chest, and therefore wasn't cursed. Instead, being the only living member of the crew, he stole a medallion from the others and sent it to his son, to have *them* stay cursed. That's what I thought, anyway. They may have needed his blood too because he was present when the crime was committed.
