of years. I thought it might be a sort of second chance. Then things got fogged and somehow . . . . It didn't seem really possible. It's not possible. Of course it's not possible. You know it isn't, don't you?"

"Why no, I said. "Miracles of that sort don't happen nowadays. And anyway, they aren't likely to happen to you, are they? And here of all places under the sun."  "It would be so dreadful," he said, "if it had been true, and I'd got to go through all that again. You don't know what things were going to happen to me in that dream. And they'd be worse now." He stopped and then, after a moment, he added as though he were stating a fact: "When one's dead there's no unconsciousness any more forever."  "Of course it was a dream," I said and squeezed his hand. He was frightening me with his fancies. I wished that he'd

• The guy that is dying is feeling guilty and has obviously done something wrong in his life time.
• I am now very confused about the dreaming part. I don't know if the sick man actually dreamed about dying and perhaps that dream is predicting that he will die, which he is now. The author wants us to be confused as well as make assumptions and judge the sanity of the sick man.
• I wonder if he's talking about hell...I think that's what the author is referring to because he says "you don't know what things were going to happen to me in that dream. And they'd be worse now.
• This makes me wonder whether or not he's talking about heaven or hell or some sort of afterlife. "You don't know what things were going to happen to me in that dream. And they'd be worse now.
• The boy realizes now how bad the things that he did are and now feels he is going to die. He claimed before that if something happened and he were to live, then he would never touch another girl again. He said it would be almost like a second chance and that he could be better.
• The son thought living again would change things, be able to fix things and be a better person, for he was given a second chance. The keep referencing his past death experience to a dream, and the son seems to be scared of the dream to occur again.
• People always say, "if you dream about dying it's predicted to actually happen in the near future." Maybe this is the case? Maybe he dreamed so much about dying that he is actually going to die now and can't do anything about it.
• This part is about thoughts of life and death, and I think this is why the name of the story is "The Second Death".
• Is the miracle he is talking about here living?
• I think the author wants us to believe that it was in a dream that he thought he died
• I find it a little odd that the narrator is so uncomfortable with what the sick man is saying and he keeps reassuring him that it was simply a dream.
• I still cannot get over that he said he had sex with someone young who didn't understand it in the last section. Those words made it very hard for me to feel any sort of sympathy towards him. Also I am wondering why the narrator is still trying to comfort him. He does not seem to be a good person. I am wondering if the dying man is delusional or if he actually had experienced death before.
• The dying man seems thoroughly scared of what would happen if he "died again" and I think this is making the speaker waver a little bit in his opinion that it was just a dream. The sick man is showing his regret for his past actions but only because he is scared to pay the consequences.
• I believe that the author wants us to think in the back of our minds that there might be possibility that the man revives again.
• He seems concerned about "no unconsciousness anymore forever".
• I'm interested in his thought process, but this section really has nothing to reflect on. By this point, I've made my judgement on the character, I understand his fear and its not really helping move the storyline along.
• I think the ill man is trying to convince himself that when he was dead before, it was just a dream he had and not really a supernatural experience he was having because of his death. Maybe when he died before, he was given a second chance to turn his life around. However, he didn't and now he is afraid because he's about to die again.
• He tries to convince himself that it wasn't real, but on the other had, he thinks it was sort of a second chance. Now even the old man was starting to get a little scared with all the madness his friend was going through.
• In this section, the author wants us to react to the whole 'it was just a dream' conversation that is happening between the two friends. As of now, I believe that the sick friend is trying to convince himself that indeed his 'first death' was only a dream, as he is frightened that it was not, and now that he is dying again, what if he does not have 'that dream' again? Also, my reaction to the friends words such as "Miracles of that sort don't happen nowadays. And anyway, they aren't likely to happen to you, are they? And here of all places under the sun." Personally, I would never say that to my sick friend.
• In this section, the author wants us to react to the whole 'it was just a dream' conversation that is happening between the two friends. As of now, I believe that the sick friend is trying to convince himself that indeed his 'first death' was only a dream, as he is frightened that it was not, and now that he is dying again, what if he does not have 'that dream' again? Also, my reaction to the friends words such as "Miracles of that sort don't happen nowadays. And anyway, they aren't likely to happen to you, are they? And here of all places under the sun." Personally, I would never say that to my sick friend.
• The friend is scared of his future, if his second death will be anything like his first. The narrator reassures him it was all a dream, even if he was admittedly frightened by the series of events after death - during death, or even if it was death - I'm not sure, although they were both thoroughly spooked by the nagging feeling you could be conscious in the aftermath of death, even during the process of it all.
• What had the son done that he believes he is being given a second chance to fix?
• I think that by saying things would be worse now he is admitting to doing bad or improper things in his life and he is scared and trying not to believe he will go to hell for what he has done.
• It sounds like the ill man is scared of having another dream like he had the previous time he almost died.
• It seems like the last time this guy almost died, he had a dream which he didn't enjoy and he's scared of it happening again.
• boy thatkdkdkdkdkdkdkThe son really thinks he is going to die. It seems like his heart is set on changing if he doesn't die. But from the sounds of it he knows himself that he will be dead soon.
• we have to be looking a head as a reader to see that the young man is dying and thats why his frightening thoughts and dreams are happening
• What dream (or nightmare) are they talking about?
• Oh, I get it now. The title of the story is "The Second Death" and this man seems to be on his deathbed after he made a miraculous recovery when everyone else thought he was dead. So that is starting to make sense, but it doesn't explain who the narrator is, and what any motivu
• The narrator does not believe anything that the young boy is saying about him dying then coming back to life. He keeps saying how he has become "Religious" as well.