Why praying to the dead?

(originally posted in Bubblews)

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Some people believe that the dead can still listen to us and, believing that, we don't know what they are going through, their souls might be in suffering, might be stuck in a reality where they no longer are.

Believers pray for the dead to let them go. It's a way to tell them they are no longer among the living, but those who are still remember, so they can rest in peace.

Other ways of praying to the dead is when people pray to Jesus or Mary, or any other so called saint which were, once, living people.

Even though believers think those souls are in peace, they had no sins, they pray to them for help. Sometimes people also do that with loved ones... for help and comfort of the living and not to change the final destiny or comfort the dead.