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[slothen]

the proposed clean up method will not work. A zombie will NOT burn to death. You will need something to kill the zombies, so the magma can burn the corpse.

^This. Even if lava would destroy the individual corpses, it won't kill undead. It's widely considered to be a bug. There is a fix you can use by adding melting points (below the temp of magma) to material templates (like fat or skin/bone) so the purging will actually work.

In my brief experience fighting off necro-zombies, they are consistently one-shot by marksdwarves with metal bolts.  This is unlike living humanoids, which tend to turn to pincushions before taking a kill-shot.  So if you have non-burning zombies wading around in magma, it should be easy to shoot them from above, resulting in death and the elimination of the corpse.