The threads on parapsychology inspired this one: as far as I know, many believers think that some kind of communication is possible, with people who have died. This despite the fact that the bible condemns the practice/attempt to contact the dead; indeed, it is a blasphemous act. Anyway, supposing that this communication is possible, should we look for the least energy-intensive method possible? Instead of having a “medium” scatch out a message from the byond, an email out to be easier and feasible. After all, sending a few lines of code takes very little energy, and a deceased programmer ought to be able to do it.
So, has anyone ever a received an email from a person who is deceased? 
Nah, ghosts are environmentally friendly. They won’t waste electricity when they can just move a glass around. 
Yeah, sorta.
A guy I know was killed in Afghanistan a couple of years back. He was very good about keeping in contact with me, and when a week went by of no emails, and he wasn’t out in the field, I searched, he came up as KIA. About two weeks later, his wife emailed me from his account, to notify me of his death. I’m sure it was the easiest way with all his friends, they’d be on his list of contacts.
Very eerie to have “him” email me.
Godspeed, Troy.
Y’know, right now on my screen this thread is followed by the “teenage post-breakup melodrama stress” one posted by … Speaker for the Dead :eek: .
How spooky is that? 
My father died (from disease) at a very young age. Shortly thereafter, I got a telephone call…from him. Then I woke up. I’ve had the same dream many times. He just says my name, and then I wake up.
I remember a Reader’s Digest type story about the hazards of misdirected E-mailing. A man was going on a business trip to Florida, and using the opportunity to spend some vacation time afterwards, and have his wife fly down and join him then. He mistyped her address and sent the message to a lady who’s husband had just died. Imagine her consternation to read.
Hi, sweetheart!
It’s much hotter here than we were led to believe, but I’m settled in for it, and looking forward to your arrival on the 19th.
My bro’s mother-in-law flew out of town to be with her brother, who had suddenly been hospitalized. Her brother died while she was there.
She is not the sort of person who checks her email regularly. So she hadn’t checked it for a few days before she left to be with her brother. And of course, she didn’t check it while she was out of town with him.
So when she got back, she had some emails from him. Obviously he sent them before he was died (before he was hospitalized, even) but they were new to her, AFTER he died. Eep.
Well yea, up until the that second half when zombie Jesus came along. Jesus, the friendly Ghost.
And they’re pretty good at toe tapping or table rapping, too, or so I’ve heard. With that kind of ability, who needs email?
When my younger SIL died a few years ago, she had called her sister a couple days earlier. That SIL had the recording put in a stuffed bear. :eek:
Why is is blasphemous to want to communicate with the dead? They’re the ones saying there’s life after death in the first place!!
That’s theologically inaccurate in SO many ways!
Btw, to the OP- I believe it MAY be theoretically possible, but which is one reason it’s forbidden. The dead have their realm. We have this realm. God may allow the dead to get a message to us, but we’re not supposed to go banging on their doors because you never know who/what will answer.
I got an email from someone who tried to commit suicide immediately after.
He had a change of heart and called paramedics, who saved him.
He lives half way around the globe from me and timed it as such that when I received the note, in theory, he would be well and truly gone.
I am still very angry about that. I am glad he survived but angry at his decision to involve me in that way.
I sent an email once to someone who turned out to be dead and I got an out-of-the-office auto-response.
You’re confused. It’s Casper the Friendly Ghost and Jesus, the Holy Ghost.
[prissy voice]Please make a note of it.[/prissy voice] 
I still have emails cached from my sister who died 4 years ago. I know people who still have dead loved one’s numbers on their speed dial-they just can’t remove it, even though the number has been reassigned. But they don’t get calls or emails from the dead, per se.
Some years ago I received a call telling me that a dear friend had died suddenly (and young - heroin). I went to the office a short time later and there it was, an email, from him talking about the benefits from the Macintosh computer. Must’ve been just a day, or hours before.
Hey ho, so it goes.
Somewhat related, I can remember during the height of the AIDS crisis, people would look at their Rolodex and realize half or more of the names of the people on it had died.
A friend of mine called an old friend who was very ill. He got a recording from his friend who had died, but had asked his family to put that message on his answering machine. It was surprisingly upbeat, but his it was his final message to all of his friends who called him.
It’s not the difficulty of manipulating bits and bytes in computers that prevents it, it’s negotiating the bloody mail communication protocols.
Hand typing SMTP is not that hard.
But hell is still on 300 baud dial-up, and the acoustic coupler is broken…
Si
For you perhaps. For Auntie Doris, rattling teacups and making the curtains billow is considerably simpler.