Jon: Don't know what you base your statement on. I'm a Christian (if that makes any difference) and I can't recall any substantive reports written or verbal that forbids one to talk to the dead. My wife died last August and I find myself, from time to time making comments to her as though she were present. Does that mean I am condemned to some sort of purgatory or something? I'm really curious. Where did you get such an idea? Or maybe you are just putting us on!

Rick, I think cemeteries are facinating. I went back to my old hometown recently to attend a reunion of classmates and visited my mother and father's graves. I saw markers on graves of many old friends that brought back lots of good memories.

DougR