I would rather have wound up in the 'afterlife' whatever that may be. Unfortunately I'm an undead creature, sort of. I'm a strange kind of vampire.

[He pauses a little and thinks about it.]

The way I died was unpleasant and very painful. It was slow, but not as slow as it could have been I suppose, like if I had gotten sick. It might have been tolerable if I was under medical care or something like that, but that wasn't really an option.