zodiac28 Jan 2004

That said: Ghosts are very interesting, though overused. I think the huge ghost-related entertainment output of America misses some interesting questions about ghosts - such as, why do ghosts always have to appear in some scary or at least startling manner, even if they're friendly ghosts just trying to right some wrong, or appearing to their former loved ones? Even more important, why do ghosts always want to right wrongs and get revenge anyway? You'd think being dead already would put a little perspective on the whole I-must-avenge thing and they'd just, I don't know, hang out instead. My wife and I have a plan, should one of us die, to appear to each other in the least startling way possible. It involves a bright sunny day and a very non-cryptic telephone call well in advance. I think Jefferson and Hamilton had a similar plan, sans telephone.