Actually, I'll retract that. I suspect that "the moments immediately following his passing in this life" actually will change his mind - from a living one to a dead one.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'