"Did you drown? Get struck by lightening? Hanged? Did you kill yourself? Was it drugs? A heart attack? Did your appendix explode? Were you buried alive? Struck by a train? Hit with a shovel? An axe? A hoe? A pick? What happened?" He really wanted to know. A real live dead person! True, he'd have to get rid of him sooner or later but maybe he could ask a few questions first.