Because Scripture condemns the practice of communing with dead people.
I do, however, ask living saints (friends from church, for example) to join me in prayer.
There are no dead saints, Theo. The saints are more alive than you or I.
gee, it will be news to the saints in heaven that they are “dead”
it will be news to the martyrs depicted in Revelation 6:10, are they “dead” as well?
i thought absent from the body, present with the Lord, but i guess they are “dead”.