You have so many questions.

[Chill out, girl, one at a time. He might be a science experiment, but he's his own science experiment, specifically, no one else's.]

I have never seen an afterlife. If there is any. Spirits are not common. Whatever storybook tales you may have in your home about them do not apply to me.

[A beat, while he considers.]

All of you choose to stick around. I am perfectly within my rights to do the same.