[Brook was indeed quite patient, as he'd spent nearly half a century doing pretty much nothing. Or did that make him less patient? He can never remember. Well more dead than Brook was one way of putting it. A kind of morbid and harsh way of putting it, but it's not like Robin's well known for subtlety when it comes to such things.]

So I've heard... but if it's temporary, doesn't that make him just as dead as me?

[I mean really, he probably stayed dead waaay longer than Zoro will.]

I'm actually thinking of writing him a dirge birthday song.