"Do loved ones bid farewell from beyond the grave?"

[Girard442]

3. Here's my opinion:

Imagine that one of your loved ones just disappears. Maybe they're alive, maybe they're not. There's no way to know.

Then you have these ambiguous experiences: you think you might have seen them far away or in a car speeding by but you're not sure. There are odd phone calls that might be some attempt to communicate. Maybe you even think you hear a voice that might be theirs.

Now imagine this: your loved one is actually alive and their captors allow you these brief, tantalizing glimpses that leave you wondering but always in doubt. They never allow you to be reunited with your loved one or even to know for sure they're alive. Wouldn't those captors be a bunch of sick sadistic evil sons of bitches?

Much better to accept that people are totally gone when they die and to honor them by remembering their actual lives, don't you think?