The dead do not speak without help from the living, one way or the other.

But I had more to fear from the living than the dead.

From the living room came the sound of the television.

What had the dead in here to fear from the living?

There was silence again, from the living and the dead.

The dead know many things that are hidden from the living.

There was dark hair all over him, his body mostly hard but beginning to turn soft from easy living.

Because most of the dead, they just disconnect from the living.

His exit from the living would come several months ahead of schedule and not at all according to plan.

At what age did it become necessary to take from the living?