One of the comments posted on the Pharnygula thread about necrodunking:
"If one is to be fair, though, it should be noted that intelligence greatly diminishes after death. Which does seem to explain how so many became Mormons after, not before, dying."
... one day I went on a ward temple night. I went to get my family names from the desk when I noticed that other people had done work for ancestors four and five times. I had already done the work, but the names had been given out several times after that. Each ancestor had been baptized, confirmed, endowed and sealed many times over. Of course, they didn't have an answer for what happened..."
He is very cool - met him last month at a Center for Inquiry DC event. (Anyone who appreciates cephalopods as much as I do is awesome. Plus he has my non-profit employer's "badge" displayed on his blog, indicating he is a "proud supporter," so of course that makes me happy.)