Their bodies are clearly dead!
We are expressly forbidden to contact the dead.
“Their bodies are clearly dead!”
Their immortal soul is not dead, and if they died in a State of Grace and are in Heaven, they are part of the Christian Community of Saints that you appear to deny exists.
I don't know you very well, so I don't have a clear idea of what we consider common ground, and what we don't. Help me out here.
Do you believe in the Trinity? In the Communion of Saints? Do you believe we are members of the Body of Christ?
That'll help me understand where you're coming from.