# E-Mails from the Dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 28, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104 "2006-11-28T18:34:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104/1 "2006-11-28T18:34:07Z")
Suppose the dead really want to communicate with the living-wouldn’t an e-mail be the most efficient (smallest use of energy) way to do it? forget moving a ouiji board pointer, or rapping on walls-composing an email would use a tinay amount of energy. have any such emails been reported? What’s the paprapsychol;ogist’s take on this? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104/2 "2006-11-28T18:41:01Z")
Well, a ghost might find typing on a keypad even more energy-demanding. He _could_ manipulate the electrons, but ghosts are lousy coders. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104/3 "2006-11-28T19:18:45Z")
Oh, great, now we get to discuss the Ghost in the Machine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104/4 "2006-11-28T19:24:12Z")
Oh, great. Business offers from dead Nigerians. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104/5 "2006-11-28T19:51:17Z")
Maybe they could just answer those [cell phones ringing in the pockets of the dead](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_New_York_%28album%29). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104/6 "2006-11-28T20:22:32Z")
And top psychics all agree That the telephone company Will have a brand new service that lets you talk to the dead –Weird Al Yankovic, “Midnight Star” ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104/7 "2006-11-28T20:31:33Z")
Anybody seen _Serial Experiments Lain_? ---
**Author:** ![tbdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@tbdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbdi)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-from-the-dead/382104/8 "2006-11-28T20:42:22Z")
And here I expected a comment about this kind of service > **[Site offers clients after-death email service](https://www.theage.com.au/national/site-offers-clients-after-death-email-service-20040927-gdjt9n.html)**