Whatever.
What I want to say is like this: (1)There not being a scriptural precedent obviously doesn't mean to us what it means to you. (2) If all we mean by "the dead" is those who have died -- as opposed tgo meaning those who are currently not alive -- then the term loses its argumentative force, and I'm fine with it.
So your position (just asking for verification) is regardless of their current vitality, once folks have died, you cain't ask 'em for stuff. And ours is that the communion of saints is all around us, a cloud of witnesses with which we are surrounded, and all that.
I don't see a brige across this. Do you?