I was suprised that there is yet no necromancy tag on WorldBuilding. Please, consider creating it on WorldBuilding, as users can be seeking questions specifically about necromancy for their worldbuilding.

What is the reason behind the iron law of necromancy, "In order to raise the dead you must be dead yourself"? "You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world." This is just crazy.

I just read this question: Effects of a larger value for the Gravitational Constant? It has both the science-fiction and hard-science tags attached to it. So I went and read the summary and wiki for science-fiction. Though not my question, a legitimate question could be, why do we even have this ...