diff --git a/code/modules/zombie/organs.dm b/code/modules/zombie/organs.dm
index 43a6130c773..94ace7e6c7f 100644
--- a/code/modules/zombie/organs.dm
+++ b/code/modules/zombie/organs.dm
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@
 
 /obj/item/organ/internal/zombie_infection/proc/organ_owner_died(mob/living/carbon/source, gibbed)
 	SIGNAL_HANDLER
-	qdel(src) // Congrats you somehow died so hard you stopped being a zombie
+	if(iszombie(source))
+		qdel(src) // Congrats you somehow died so hard you stopped being a zombie
 
 /obj/item/organ/internal/zombie_infection/on_find(mob/living/finder)
 	to_chat(finder, span_warning("Inside the head is a disgusting black \