Maybe there's something in their life, some regret, that's been bothering them forever. They keep coming back to it, little by little, throughout the realization of death. Then they're alive, and they can fix or redo or do their regret. They can own their life as they've always wanted. They have the will and power they never had before to do that.
And that might just work in the scale of a short too. Character stories are so hard to tell in that format.
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And that might just work in the scale of a short too. Character stories are so hard to tell in that format.