Is this just another way of making fun of how I talk?
Dying with your eyes open
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Is this just another way of making fun of how I talk?
Oh god, I don't think I've seen in since like 92, but I remember that episode.
That's one of those that's great to watch the first time, but never ever ever again.
Like very episode of Voyager.
It's a topic about your eyes being open upon death, ThankQ was talking about people being enlightened by new evidence (which is what that particular Tamarian metaphor was about), and you were saying he talked kind of funny. I was going for the trifecta.
Um, not quite uncommon, but the closing the eyes, as is done on TV/movies won't quite work that way. Go back far enough and you'll see that it used to be people used small coins to hold the eyelids down for when rigor mortis sets in place.
Believe it. When I was in the Navy, we were conducting an at sea replenishment during which time we had a long wait on station before starting the evolution. One of the men there was so tired, that he fell asleep, but his eyes were half-way open. It was very freaky, because he looked like he was dead.
Yup, and its pretty damned freaky when you first see it, particularly if they also snore, but it happens.
Sometimes when my dogs fall asleep their eyes are half open...and then their eyeballs roll into the back of their head. Talk about freaky looking.
More than that, we saw a belief change on an Internet forum.
Perhaps there is a God after all.
Yeah, but Roger Wilco lives in Austria, not the US.
My cat did the same. Freaky.
Yeah, I often sleep with my eyes open.
Sure, no problem. I just wasn't sure how to respond to that! I'm not in the habit of making up things in order to get attention. The sleeping with eyes open thing isn't something I've done in a long time, and it apparently does freak people out. The first time (that I'm aware of) where I did it, my friends thought I was just kind of spacing out until they talked to me and I was completely unresponsive.
I think it's pretty beautiful too, actually.
The norm for people's experience with the dead, I HOPE, is that they see a deceased person in their casket at the funeral home. Because the morticians always sew the eyes closed, it stands to reason that our paradigm for dead bodies is that their eyes will automatically be closed. Because your eyelids remain in whatever position they were in when you died, this paradigm is false, and shocking when reality challenges it.
I suspect that because of this paradigm, for a long time Standards and Practices mandated that when a TV character died, their eyes be automatically closed. And, like many things that have changed over time on TV (such as married couples being allowed to be shown in the same bed -- The Brady Bunch or interracial kissing -- Star Trek) that Standards and Practices no longer cares about this particular paradigm. They're more interested, after all, in making sure that no one ever sees Janet Jackson's nipple again.
I suspect that because of this paradigm, for a long time Standards and Practices mandated that when a TV character died, their eyes be automatically closed. And, like many things that have changed over time on TV (such as married couples being allowed to be shown in the same bed -- The Brady Bunch or interracial kissing -- Star Trek) that Standards and Practices no longer cares about this particular paradigm. They're more interested, after all, in making sure that no one ever sees Janet Jackson's nipple again.
Happens pretty much all the time. The untimely deaths/head shots etc I've seen all had half open eyes.
I have a freind who's done that, we even put a bottle cap on his nose and he didn't flinch, after about 15 min. his eyes did close but the cap remained.
and my father died with his eyes open, I was a witness to it.
We need to archive this Thread to use it as an example for future generations.
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