Messenger to the dead?

Press, 22 September 1984, Page 9

Messenger to the dead?

NZPA-AP Fort Lauderdale

Ken McAvoy, a cancer patient who doctors say has only months to live, is doing a booming business with his offer to deliver messages to the dead for SUS2O (about WO). He placed two advertisements in a regional magazine offering to get in touch with people on the "other side,” and has fielded dozens of calls from people seeking his services. "I have a mission in this

life. I believe this is what I was put on this Earth to do,” said Mr McAvoy’s advertisement in South Florida’s “Single Living.” “I will acknowledge by a written guarantee a copy of which I will take to the grave with me, and I solemnly promise to put forth my best efforts in trying to contact those who you wish to be contacted,” it said.

In the first week, he had five requests. At the beginning of the second week, he

had more than two dozen, he said.

“The London ‘Times’ has called. Everybody seems to have a very good reaction to it. I’m flabbergasted,” said Mr McAvoy, aged 41. Mr McAvoy said messages ranged from “I love you and will join you soon,” to a simple “Why, dad?” from a child cut out of a will.

“The responses I’m getting ...well, I’m way over my head,” said McAvoy, the father of three children.