Talk:Connie Springer/@comment-123.243.14.158-20130113004051/@comment-8887596-20130429131226

it is speculated and hinted throughout both the show and the manga that titans are mutated human corpses, and the only way to keep a corpse from becoming one is to burn it. however, that still does not explain the increase in their numbers, since it explains that in the hundred years after the construction of the walls, the titans numbers continued to increase, despite the lack of human casualties.