Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell YOU, The'I know this may come as a shock, and you know I'm not fond of using stale one liners, but: 'reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.' I'm as alive now as I was on the day we met, except, maybe, more so.' If the dead could speak, don't you wonder what they would say to those of us they've left behind? What would they tell us to soothe our sorrow for their loss, calm our fears of what happens when we die, and fire us up to live the best