So he is dead. That... would sound pretty fake, if it weren't for the fact that Ginko was already having a conversation with a fully animate skeleton.

Instead, though, it just went to raise a few more questions - not that Jack simply being some kind of living creature that happened to look like an elongated human skeleton wouldn't have. But those questions might have to wait.

"...That's a possibility. Not like dead people walk around very often here. Did you used to be a living human, then?"

Or he could start asking right now.