Raising the dead

Necromancy in Greece, the body is dug up in order to communicate to the spirit (understand this was before embalming and cement boxes around the coffins were employed as it is now).The necromancer would invoke the spirit into the dead body and attempt to give it one last chance to communicate. Guteral sounds were sometimes heard (which is normal because of the gases inside the body as it decomposes expands and then passes across the vocal cords making noises as if it were alive. Bodies can even sit up due to the gases). It could be debated that the spirit was causing the gases to escape and the necromancer's clairaudiency allowed them to interpret what it was "saying", as a spirit could cause a book to fly off a shelf. The necromancy gave it enough energy to manipulate the physical just enough to make it's presence known. If the body was too decayed or no sounds/movement was made by the corpse, the greek necromancer would merely evoke the spirit and speak to him, using the body as a way to connect. Then they would bury the body again.

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Once someone is dead, totally dead, no one can bring them back. If the person is not showing signs of decomposition, then they may not actually be dead. Their eyes will begin to melt first, and if that isn't happening, there is still some form of circulation present, even if it is extremely slight. Blood pooling and rigormortis is a debateable way to tell if someone is truly dead, due to the disease I explained above.

If strangely they are not decomposing, then they are probably not dead. In all the cases of "raising the dead" and "bringing them back to life", don't you find it strange that they would be "ok" if they were truly dead? Your blood thickens, your eyes melt, your body deteriorates...but when people are "resurrected" they are healthy! So no. If a person is dying, in a coma, etc. Go right ahead and perform a ritual to help them. (As long as they're being taken care of by a medical staff too). But once they're decayed, all you're going to do is pull their spirit into a corpse. Do you want to be snuggled up to a dead body? I know I don't!

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Sooo... is it possible?:p

Again, no. It is not possible.

Belief certainly makes you capable of working hard toward something, and it gives you the confidence and will power to do what is possible, but it does not render anything possible, unlike what some would have you believe.

There are plenty of people in mental institutions that believe a great deal of things to be true with all of their hearts... And it impacted absolutely nothing in the physical world.

You may call up and converse with a spirit of the dead, but you cannot bring the body back to life.

Even if you could, once the body stops living, necrosis begins to set in and tissues and cells cease functioning. This starts the slow process of decay, which on a microscopic level is somewhat alarming. So on, so forth. There is a reason that they harvest organs rather immediately for organ donation, often keeping the body physically alive through artificial means to do so.

I've heard of ressurection spells where, when someone dies you can take the life force energy from someone else and put it into the person that has died. I'm not sure if it works though, and if it did it would probably not be a very good thing to do since, by doing it someone else who is perfectly alive would have to die in the process.

NightmareKid, I don't think so. It is certainly possible to "possess" a person (though I've only ever heard of spirits being able to do it, and usually only with consent), but you can't transfer the "life" within a person into another body (life-energy doesn't count, that's just a technical term for magical energy). I think that reanimation is possible (necromancers must have been able to do something convincing), but you cannot actually bring the dead back to life. The body can be made to move again, but the mind and soul shall never return.

its possible to talk to the spirit of the person to come back but you cant physcaly bring someone back to life but its kinda rude to summon a spirit for no reason

I would like to thank all of you for responding^_^ You have all taught me a lot. But I have another question.

So you cant bring the dead back to life, but is it possible for a spirit to occupy a corpse for a little while, like a puppet?