Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

the possession of power brings on madness.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.