[He gets it. Extreme skelephobia, these things happen to the freshly dead all the time. Poor fellow can't even look him in the eye. But there's nothing he can do about being vitality-challenged!]

So this isn't an afterlife? How come you can see me? I haven't been to the living world since, you know, but from everything I've heard, I should be invisible. Like a ghost.

[...Hard not to talk about being dead when one is dead and has so many questions.]