"Leaving here has nothing to do with dying," he said. That much he knew. He'd been here long enough to learn that. "Just because someone goes home doesn't mean that they're dead." They went home either way. It was completely random and he was pretty sure that nobody had ever discerned a patter.
"My Alex is already older than your Alex," he said. "Wouldn't he...you know, be dead already if he was going to be?"