Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee?"
People don't survive their own deaths. Dead people are not only merely dead, they are really most sincerely dead.
88:10-12
"The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence." 115:17
"My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war."
120:6-7