 Howell offers all of the following reasons why resurrection is problematic EXCEPT:
FEBRUARY STRAWBERRIES By JIM HARMON How much is the impossible worth? [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Linton lay down his steel fork beside the massively solid transparency of the restaurant water glass. Howell had to know that he would remember. "The man who isn't Snead is leaving," Linton said, describing the scene over Howell's shoulder. Howell breathed in deeply and sucked back Linton's attention. "Oh, well, 'dead,'" Howell replied. He's not Sherlock Holmes or the Frankenstein Monster—there's no doubt or semantic leeway to the thing." Even after they had let him out of the asylum as cured, he still secretly believed he had known a genuine affection for her. Linton felt that his silence was asking Howell by this time. "I don't know, mind you," Howell said, puffing out tobacco smoke, "but I suppose he might have been resurrected." Linton asked, thinking: God? Howell meant that some people had a system of making it appear that a person had died in order to gain some illegal advantage. But by saying something so patently ridiculous, Linton hoped to bring the contradicting truth to the surface immediately. I guess that's how it is," Howell agreed. "But it's wonderful," Linton said, thinking his immediate thoughts. "Look, Frank, you can't legalize a thing like resurrection," Howell said with feigned patience. Death is their whole life. Not nearly enough." Overpopulation. "There are a lot of fakes and quacks in the resurrection business. When the cops find out about a place, they break in, smash all the equipment and arrest everybody in sight. The charges, if any, come under general vice classification." You want to shock somebody, you tell him, 'You're going to be dead someday,' not anything sexual. The opposite of 'live' these days is 'video-taped.'" "Tell me, Howell, where could I find a resurrectionist?" "Damn you, Howell, you tell me!" "I take you out to dinner to console you over the loss of your wife a half a year ago, and to make you feel welcome back to the society of your fellows after being in the hospital for a nervous breakdown. "You started riots in two places, attempted to bribe an officer.
 It is extremely costly
 It is illegal  It conflicts with many people's religious beliefs  It compromises the death industry  It is extremely costly