The consensus so far is some sort of Frankensteinian reanimation. Any opposing thoughts?

This is old so doesn’t count toward Death’s score.

Of course this is a reference to the belief that if you drop food on the floor and pick it up within five seconds it’s okay to eat. So… if a person’s been dead for less that five seconds, his spirit can go back inside??

There appears to be no caption for this cartoon; at least none that Google Image Search came up with.