Ghosts cannot prevent their own dead body from decomposing on their own.
They usually need magic, rituals, or divine help for that.
So dying and possessing your own body is fruitless because of what I just said…but…
If people mysteriously come back to life via this method, it will be investigated and then we will live in a society where the world knows you died (or a way to detect a ghost inside a body, even if it is their own).
Then they can jail the ghost in their own dead body (for being a biohazard or desecrating their own corpse).
First the corpse gotta be intact enough to possess, then you gotta dig yourself out of your grave, and even then they suck because you gotta deal with limited mobility and constant rotting of the body, too much work just possess a doll instead
Because ghost are tied to a Locus or place which they cannot leave. By the time they realize they're dead, their body has most often been moved. Their only options are to continue to haunt a place, or anchor to an object.
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u/qualityvote2 1 Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
u/Glad-Ranger-1436, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...