He wasn't "dead" from that point, it was an alternate timeline. Frank had "saved" him by luring him out of bed when the crash occured, so all the connections with time and metaphysics had to do with Donnie recreating the timeline to set things the way they were supposed to be to save Gretchen and thereby preventing Frank and his mother and sister from being killed as well, with himself being the sacrifice.
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