Thanks Rebecca, I appreciate your comment. Please note that I stated that I did not expect a conversation or discussion with some one who is dead, that is unscriptural. I would say again that it would be like talking at a gravesite, communicating our feelings. I am not advocating dialouging with the dead, just a show of effection and reflection, a ONE sided conversation. There have been many others that God has allowed this type of comfort when death has struck unexpectadly, a glimps of their loved one. Some of those folks are here.
 
Like the experience I had last year when I hit my head then later saw my mother in her new body in heaven as a reassurance. Don't be too rigid and exclude everything. God can do many things and may even reassure us of pets in heaven.