Saints in heaven are alive, too.
So are people in hell.
Everyone is alive somewhere so that kind of justification or rationalization is ludicrous.
Anyone without an agenda of justifying their unscriptural religious practices recognizes the ordinary fact that when people talk about not contacting the dead, it means that people physically alive here on earth are prohibited from contacting those people who have physically died and are physically no longer alive here on earth.
Also the argument that people praying to *saints* in heaven is not asking them for anything but rather asking them to intercede to God for them is demonstrably false.
There are a plethora of Catholic prayers to dead people Catholics call saints that can be found online with a simple google search that prove that to be untrue.
Catholics ask those dead people to do things for them all the time.
It's like they think they can get something out of them easier than they can get something out of God.
Like the *saints* would go outside the will of God for a person.
It's a shame Catholics don't trust God enough to answer their prayers Himself, like He promised He would do for us, that they are afraid to go to Him with their needs and requests.