why bother the dead at all? they did their time on earth, why not let them enjoy their peace?
...personally i hope you all do find your "secret" necromancy books and summon up oodles of dead to tear you apart, laugh at your soul and then pass it around their mates to have fun with...they can do such things, they've had ages under the earth, and if they're susceptible to such manipulations, then they know what to do, you've had what, a few decades alive on earth, as a human?
this is what i eventually found so repulsive about the occult, not the art itself but the practicioners that have developed no respect, care or concern for what they're dealing with, just dreaming of the power, glory and awe factor that it can bring...if you can even muster up the energy to sustain a horde of undead, why would you need to bother with minions for, you'd be a god, not living like a parasite.