Another common question. Do you wheel people out of their grave and baptize them? The answer to that is again NO. Baptisms for the dead are for those who have passed on that aren't members. As a member of the church, you get baptized when you are 8. That's when you become accountable for your choices. When you're 12, you have the opportunity to visit the temple. There, you do baptisms for the dead. What is that you ask? Well, a long time ago, people were members of the church. Their records were, well, recorded. Now, we know who's been baptized in the world, and who hasn't. So the process goes like this: we get the dead' s names, baptize someone else who is being baptized for them, ans then the dead person can accept the baptism, or reject it. It's not forced. I'll explain that a little better. We get the dead peoples names that we're working on that day-pretty self explanatory. Now for the confusing part. Someone else, another member, acts for the dead people getting baptized. There are no literal dead people in the water. We get baptized for them. Then in heaven, or downstairs, they get to choose whether or not to accept the gospel.
