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JOLIET, Ill. — Four people, including two young children, were found shot to death inside a home in Joliet in what appears to be a murder-suicide. Police arrived to a house in the 500 block of Whitley Avenue around 10:20 p.m. Wednesday and found a man, a woman and their two young children shot to death on the second floor of the home. A family member identified them as 28-year old Jacquelon Gaskin, the children’s biological father Brandyn Lee, 6-year old Gianna and 1-year old Giovanni. “I never seen this coming,”I See Dead People Disembodied Souls and Aquinas's Two-Person Problem Christina Van Dyke Aquinas's account of the human soul is the key to his theory of human nature. The soul's nature as the substantial form of the human body appears at times to be in tension with its nature as immaterial intellect, however, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Aquinas's discussion of the 'separated' soul. In this paper I use the Biblical story of the rich man and Lazarus (which Aquinas took to involve actual separated souls) to highlight what I will call the Two-Person Problem facing his account of human identity through death and the bodily resurrection.1 Here, in short, is the problem: Aquinas explicitly claims that the rational soul is neither the human