Yeah. That's what I mean by discontinuity - which I'm using not as an evaluative term but as an attempt at a descriptive term. I have to think about this. I just don't see the great gulf fixed between those who haven't yet died and those who have.
And as to the discussion thing, I would say that the Bible gives us permission to have these conversations. The impulse is already there, for a lot of us.
The Communion of Saints got lost along the way of the "Reformation".