Ghosts. Paper 1. Questions.
A man dies unpleasantly on a train at a certain location, say a bridge. Does his ghost haunt the train or the bridge? What does the memory stick to? If he jumps out of the train is the answer different?
How can a ghost look like a corpse if it is just a memory? Does this mean you go on acquiring memories after you are dead? How? Perhaps it looks like what it imagined a corpse to look like. What if it is not accurate or convincing?
A sick woman staggers onto a train, knowing that she will be found and helped when the train reaches its final destination. Unfortunately it is a circle line train. The woman dies, not discovered until the night. Her ghost still goes round and round, waiting for the end of the line. How do you placate such a spirit?
Does continental drift mean that we have ghosts from other places – are they linked to the land or their position on the ball of the earth?
What about ghosts at sea? Do they get dispersed when the water evaporates?