The Ghost of the Things Yet to Come showed to Scrooge how people would react after his death. This travel made Scrooge think in two different topics, consequence and time. The first lesson that he learn was that if he don't was good for people, them will not treat him well neither during his life nor after his death. The second lesson was that he didn't knew how much life time he still had for change those situations. When he realized that he maybe didn't had time for be a better man, he became desperate.