What do you do when Finger of Death kills a non-humanoid?

[Coidzor]

Or otherwise turn a non-humanoid into an undead?

How do you all handle that undefined place in the rules at your tables?

[SharkForce]

nothing. finger of death does something extra when it kills a humanoid. if the target was not a humanoid, it does nothing extra, and simply kills the target.

[Spellbreaker26]

You could just raise it, drop the hp a little and slap the undead resistances on it.

[Addaran]

Just like the necromancer in Diablo 2. The corpse explode and an humanoid undead is there in it's place.

They really should put a way to have zombie and skeleton of any monsters... They'd have to count as X undead depending on the CR for the upkeep and maybe need higher slots to animate.