That's not correct.  Harry's options when standing before the doors were to go back to Jack Murphy's Precinct (and take a job there), or the door of darkness that was What Comes Next.  Harry chose What Comes Next.   It just so happened that What Came Next for Harry was   More Life.   As they said, Death is a very gray spectrum of states.  He was technically dead in that his spirit was out of his body, but his body was sustained.  This says, (To me anyway), that he was only Mostly Dead.  That he still had the thread of connection to his body through his soul, and could thus come back, thanks to Mab and Demonreach's efforts.  That for all practical purposes he WAS a ghost, but they said several times that he wasn't a normal ghost.  My opinion is that due to the Fallen One cheating, this opened up several options for Uriel to employ, that are normally off limits.  Such as Harry getting a 2nd chance at life.  This makes sense, since the outcome of the Fallen cheating was Harry's death...in order to balance everything...Uriel would be given an option, with the final outcome of Harry being alive again.    7 words for 7 words,  a Life for a Death.   The Balance is maintained.

I concur and was just about to post something similar. Harry assumed 'What Comes Next' was judgment and either the elevator up or down. He had no clue that what came next was the return to his sustained body.

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