Use QTimer outside QObject

Question

So, I've written my own class Personages. It has a function kill(), that makes Personage to be "dead".

void Personages::kill()
{
    this->alive = false;
}

What I want to do is after it has been killed, call a timer to make Personage alive again in 1 second. To call a function like this:

void Personages::reincarnate()
{
    this->alive = true;
}

I make this project in Qt and I've tried to use a QTimer, but, as I understood, it can be used only with QObject (my class isn't QObject). So my question is how can I achieve this?

 void Personages::kill()
    {
        this->alive = false;
        ????
    }

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Okey, I've tried just to make it to be Q_OBJECT. class Personages is child-class of other class:

class Personages : public Objects

So, in Objects.h I've done the following:

class Objects: public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
...
}

Now Personages is Q_OBJECT too, am I right? Personages has these functions (.h):

    void            kill();
private slots:
    void            reincarnate();

And here is the code:

void Personages::kill()
{
    this->alive = false;
    this->timer = new QTimer(this);
    connect(this->timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(reincarnate()));
    this->timer->start(1000);
}

void Personages::reincarnate()
{
    this->alive = true;
    this->timer->stop();
    delete this->timer;
}

It compiles but still the dead personage doesn't become alive. What is the problem? I have this error: QObject::connect: No such slot Objects::reincarnate() in ..\AndenturesOfLolo\personages.cpp:1074

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Okey, I don't need to do any class to be a Q_OBJECT. Ali's answer worked exactly as I wanted

void Personages::kill()
{
    this->alive = false;
    QTimer::singleShot(5000, [=]() { reincarnate(); });
}

void Personages::reincarnate()
{
    this->alive = true;
}

Answer 1

Does this help?

QTimer::singleShot(2000, [=]() { foo(); });