What a nice story. Thanks for sharing this

Ha ha! I liked his message Seems like a fun guy to know in life as well as death!

Cool guy. I hope to be able to pull something like this off as well. He has raised the bar, so now I have to top it somehow.

Maybe have the cards delivered by strippers.

If you're going to go all out, get someone to practice your handwriting, and then get them to write the messages including details that take place after your death.

Or is that one of those things that crosses the line between funny and really, really creepy?

I guess mine will have to be addressed Purgatory.

I'm thinking creepy and a little mean. Although, coming from you, pock, we'd probably figure that your death was faked so that you could "haunt" us. Sneaky pock... I've got my eye on you.

Nevermind! I totally misread that...thought he died in '88, not AT 88.

I'm leaning towards creepy.
I mean, it's not that bad. It's a little tasteless, but people have done worse.
(What was that Norweigan band that released an album where the cover was the half-decapitated corpse of the singer who'd killed himself with a shotgun a few weeks earlier? THAT was tasteless.
Burzum or Mayhem, I think that was the name.)

Something silly, like a hand written form letter with blanks would be funny. So you'd get the letter with references to posthumus events, but the actual description would be written in a totally difference handwriting over a fill-in-the-blank line. That way it would be both silly instead of creepy.

You could send any remaining family members of Houdini's a card.

"Sorry it took so long to correspond...that last escape was a real b***h." - Harry

Super cool post