Gen shrugged, "Apparently some people here were dead, once? So if it gives people a second chance ... that doesn't seem so bad, right? But you know ..."

"Probably, the train doesn't want us to have a say, because it would be really short on volunteers if it did," Gen agreed. "Unless this just became ... a train full of frustrated formally dead people. So. Actually."

Wincing, Gen pointed out, "It's awful and morbid of me to say it, but then the train would have tons of volunteers."