the face of death

is grim. and flat creepy. just like in the movies, even when it is without pain and of "natural" causes (be it cancer or the like). mouth agape muscles stiff blood cold and dry. still it has the startling and troubling appearance. and that void when once there was a person, and now.... now a rotting shell. nothing more. it has this vacuum-like poof. like a ghost or a warmth sucked from your presence. real life is wierder than fiction. and sader, much much sader