In Amy Tan's Saving Fish from Drowning, the story is told through the eyes of a dead soul following her friends on a trip she arranged for them before she passed away. Another book, The Lovely Bones (蘇西/蘇菲的世界) by Alice Sebold, is also a story told by a dead girl, Susie, about her keeping an eye on what happened to her family and how they dealt with their lives after her death. Both these books are from the eyes of the dead and how they didn't "really leave" their close ones. Though the narrators are both dead, they died during different periods of a person's life and went through completely different experiences which eventually leads to different perspectives about many things. That's what makes the two books different and similar at the same time.

This posting reminds me of the book I read in the winter vacation, "The Five People I met in Heaven". The book starts with a man's death on duty and then he was taken back in time to a trip throughout his lifetime. He met some people, who have been dead already and have taken significant roles in his life. Similar with The Lovely Bones, the story is told by a dead person. And after the journey, both of them know the reasons and meanings of these people's existence in his/her lives. But what's different is that in The Five People, the people Susie looks at are still alive. 

 Why do you think these stories are told by "dead people"? What's good to write stories from the eyes of a dead person?