# "Diana having fun in 'afterlife' - psychics" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 11, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451 "2003-03-11T01:22:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/61 "2013-08-17T18:58:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I don’t think so-otherwise a “gotcha” from her/him would have been posted by now. I’ve seen posts like that on other boards that nurture such nonsense. The reason I believe so is that the statements made don’t describe any kind of afterlife, but rather someone having an unhappy normal life. For instance, IIRC, Diana would even receive counseling. She also would have hip pain and take medication. I don’t think anybody actually believing in an afterlife would describe a person whose legs hurt when she goes seeing her psychiatrist if she forgot to take her prescription drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/62 "2013-08-17T19:31:59Z")
I was hoping **coryraisa** could let me know what Warren Zevon has been up to. He probably just sleeps a lot. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUj1ricuFdY) ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/63 "2013-08-17T20:02:28Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > The reason I believe so is that the statements made don’t describe any kind of afterlife, but rather someone having an unhappy normal life. That’s a very ancient, very traditional concept of afterlife. There are plenty of stories in which the afterlife is indistinguishable, at least at first; people may not realize for some time that they _are_ dead. Consider all the tombs in which the dead are provided with things that earthly people would need and want, but which ethereal spirits have no clear use for. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/64 "2013-08-18T15:35:56Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I was hoping **coryraisa** could let me know what Warren Zevon has been up to. He probably just sleeps a lot. > [http://youtube.com/watch?v=yUj1ricuFdY](http://youtube.com/watch?v=yUj1ricuFdY) I thought someone saw Warren Zevon drinking a Piña Colada at Trader Vic’s… ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/65 "2013-08-19T17:05:39Z")
…his hair was _perfect_! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/66 "2013-08-19T20:12:16Z")
Frosm the medium: “Lady Di says… she ORDERED her chauffeur to drive 100 miles per hour… so she could to get to the video store… to rent _ **Private Parts** _.” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIHGm6mcHYc) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/67 "2013-08-19T20:32:36Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > I thought someone saw Warren Zevon drinking a Piña Colada at Trader Vic’s… I thought he was spotted at Lee Ho Fook’s getting a big dish of beef chow mein. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/68 "2013-08-20T00:38:29Z")
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night in the muzzle flash of Warren’s Thompson gun ---
**Author:** ![Coryraisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Coryraisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coryraisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/69 "2013-08-21T22:26:46Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > So, in short, she’s having a wonderful time & wishes we were there? 😕 Not really. But there are some good things there. But the poor dear misses her sons. ---
**Author:** ![Coryraisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Coryraisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coryraisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/70 "2013-08-21T22:28:47Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I was hoping **coryraisa** could let me know what Warren Zevon has been up to. He probably just sleeps a lot. > [http://youtube.com/watch?v=yUj1ricuFdY](http://youtube.com/watch?v=yUj1ricuFdY) Dunno…haven’t seen him at all. ---
**Author:** ![Coryraisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Coryraisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coryraisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/71 "2013-08-21T22:32:31Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > The deadpan style and level of detail in **copyraisa** ’s posts were actually fairly impressive. This is a higher quality of writing than one usually finds from newbies who append bizarre comments to zombie threads that were already inane ten years ago. Thanks. I think also Diana had a quite a bit of anger because she’d found out that when they took her to the hospital, she knew it was no use, but that they’d triaged her ahead of some other patients because of her title. This really made her angry and for a while, she was rather sarcastic a bit, then silent and brooding. She was also very upset and angry that the media dragged out the time between her accident and her actual death out so publicly; she was upset that her loved ones and so many people had been put thru the agony of a four or five hour wait. She felt the media should have waited, then reported after she died, so people, esp. her loved ones could get the bad news quickly, mourn, then move one. She also still has lingering fears and worries about the rest of her family, even Charles and Camilla. ---
**Author:** ![Coryraisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Coryraisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coryraisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/72 "2013-08-21T22:33:38Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > **Coryraisa** took off after realizing that this isn’t one of those “You pretend to believe anything I say, I’ll pretend to believe anything you say, and we’ll all be special together” message boards. Naap, I’m still here. Been busy, but haven’t vanished. Love reading the other posts, though; I don’t always log in to do so, but I’m still around. ---
**Author:** ![Coryraisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Coryraisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coryraisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/73 "2013-08-21T22:35:06Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Biggest surprise from the afterlife? Diana has been dating Abraham Lincoln. (He got divorced from Mary in 1957.) I don’t think so, although I think they met. She’s also met Eleanor Roosevelt and Annie Sullivan. ---
**Author:** ![Coryraisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Coryraisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coryraisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/74 "2013-08-21T22:39:04Z")
> [@bup](#): > > That’s what’s so fascinating. Diana’s continued to age, is still in therapy, and had to learn to walk again. She may never really use her right hand again. > > There’s some magical realism in this that’s just so tempting to borrow. > > What happens when you’ve been in heaven for a couple of hundred years? Are you just completely demented? Yep. I never had illusions that the afterlife was “perfect.” Anything can happen in hundreds of years. Some souls are re-incarnated in another body after a hundred or so years, sometimes it’s a thousand years before re-incarnation. I think someone did suggest to Diana that she can “try again” for another life when she was feeling so down and crying over her own life. She still often feels down about her life and feels as if she “let a world down.” It really makes her sad that there is still lots of bitterness between Charles and her siblings. ---
**Author:** ![Coryraisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Coryraisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coryraisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/75 "2013-08-21T22:40:33Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > This is all poppycock. > > Everyone knows she got reincarnated as the Princess of Whales. The cosmos has a sense of humor. Funny one!!!:D:D:D Lol! ---
**Author:** ![Coryraisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Coryraisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coryraisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/76 "2013-08-21T22:43:57Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Okayyyyy… > > All right. But then, if she didn’t communicate with you, how do you know that: > > Did you just gather all of that from her face? What an expressive one it must be to do all of that not-communicating. She does have an expressive face still now. In her life, she certainly did. That’s a large part of how I knew ahead of time that despite her attempts at smiles, she was not happy with Charles. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/77 "2013-08-21T23:23:13Z")
> [@Coryraisa](#): > > She does have an expressive face still now. In her life, she certainly did. That’s a large part of how I knew ahead of time that despite her attempts at smiles, she was not happy with Charles. Do you believe all this stuff you’re posting? ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/78 "2013-08-22T00:20:21Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I was hoping **coryraisa** could let me know what Warren Zevon has been up to. He probably just sleeps a lot. > [http://youtube.com/watch?v=yUj1ricuFdY](http://youtube.com/watch?v=yUj1ricuFdY) > [@Coryraisa](#): > > Dunno…haven’t seen him at all. Well, that’s just disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/79 "2013-08-22T00:42:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Do you believe all this stuff you’re posting? I believe the stuff about Chuck. I didn’t need a Ouija board to figure out she loathed him well before the divorce. Her tells were as plain as the nose on her face, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diana-having-fun-in-afterlife-psychics/160451/80 "2013-08-22T00:53:48Z")
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