[Enoch's voice softens in response to the negativity he's inadvertently brought on, but he doesn't shy away from it. He continues, instead, gentler but no less sincere.]

That might be where to begin. Your body may be corpse-like, but you seem more alive than dead to me. You are animate and do not rot. There are things which can end your life, and you require sustenance - and you cannot end or sustain something which has already ended. You feel, reason, and learn, and you are capable of ambition. All of those things tell me you are as capable of change as we are.