If what you’re saying is true, why do you ask people to pray for you when you should pray directly to Jesus?
Usually I don’t ask people to pray for me, because I don’t like being a burden to other people.
But if I asked people to pray for me, it would be living people who only pray to the Savior.
I wouldn’t pray TO dead people and I wouldn’t (because it is not possible) ask a dead person to pray for me.
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing...”