The author most likely included Scoot's blackout in order to —

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What is the significance of the novel's title? what is the "sweet hereafter"? a place you go after a tragedy takes your life a beautiful place the dead go, like heaven into the sunset, an ending that is not defined a dark sad place the dead go before rebirth