"What the hell?" you hear a voice high above you and look up to see Death gliding down, his cloak whipping in the wind. He has his scythe tied around his back like a katana. You scramble to the other side of the net and lean against the wall as he comes to a stop in the middle of the net. He jumps up and down on it a few times. "Oh, c'mon..." he mutters. He jumps harder and harder, but the net shows no sign of giving. Sighing heavily, he looks at you, rolls his eyes, and pulls a cell phone out of a pocket in his robes.
He dials it and puts it up to where his ear would be if he wasn't, you know, a skeleton. You hear it ringing a few times before it picks up. "Hey, boss." Death says in a pissed off tone. "You sent me down here to collect #5,608,342,119? Well, I went to take him with me and he hit this net. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?" he paces a few steps on the net as you continue to watch him. His perpetual grin becomes a frown. "I see. I see. Well, next time, warn me about these things a little in advance huh? Ok, thanks, boss. See you in a little bit." Death hangs up and slips the cell back into his pocket.
Death sighs and says: "Well, I've got good news and bad news. Which do you wanna hear first?" "Good news!" you say. Given your current situation, you need some. "Well, the good news is Boss says you aren't quite ready to join the afterlife yet." You cheer and are about to get up when Death waves his hand. "The bad news is, the reason you're not ready is that you have unfinished business here on Earth. Don't ask me what it is, cause only the Boss knows." You look at him, puzzled. What 'unfinished business' do you have? You have (had?) a fiancée, a few great friends, and a dog back at home. Your relationships with all of them were great.
"The bad news doesn't stop there. Since your body already died, and the Boss can't make you a new one, you'll have to go around and possessing living things. If it has what can be considered a brain, you can inhabit it and still have all your intelligence and memories. Unfortunately, you can't talk and when you try to you'll just make the sounds of the animal you possessed. You can even posses humans, and you'll gain their memories and feelings as well. When you exit your host, they'll have no memory of the period of time you were in them, the limit of which is one week. Once you have completed whatever your unfinished business is, I'll come to collect you."
Death finishes and folds his arm bones across his chest. You stare at him in shock. "It's a lot to take in, I know, but you'll have to get used to it. Now back to the world of the living you go." He walks over and hoists you up to your feet. He places his finger bones on your temples and you feel faint, your legs give out from under you and you feel like you're melting away. You watch as your body becomes limp and tumbles to the bottom of the net, not moving. You look down and see a shimmering image of yourself, light purple in color.
Death speaks again. "There. You're a spirit and no one can see you. You can stay in this form for all of eternity, for all I care. You can even scare people like a ghost if you're so inclined. See you when you complete your business." Death walks over and pulls a switchblade out of his pocket and stabs your body in the back with it. He sees your puzzled expression and says, "Hey, you can't just drop dead for no reason."
Then he picks you up by your shoulders and with tremendous strength throws you up towards the opening. You fly up and up until...
You're floating above the path. You discover you can fly and adjust your speed. You zoom around for a minute before you see your body lying face down in the middle of the path, a switchblade jutting out of your back. So that's how you "died". You see a jogger come running up the path and she comes to a screeching halt when she sees your body. She screams and runs in the opposite direction.
You look around and see all the people you saw right before you got pushed into the pit. Might as well get started on possessing now...