But smart-ass is my natural state of being. I'll try and tone it down just for a minute.
1. Definitely sure I died. No way I could have survived exploding a building I was still in. And given the reactions I've gotten from people, I'm not supposed to be up and around. So.
2. I feel very much alive so I'm not really thinking about myself as being dead so much as being in a temporary state of nondeath that will end as soon as I get shuffled home. And then I will be dead dead.
3. No? What sort of things would that even make me be able to do? I'm not a ghost so I can't walk through walls or anything like that.
4. Yes. And I'm guessing that depends more on the partner than anything else. Not really something I've got the experience to comment on. People leave me long before I leave them.