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On the big or small screen, if someone falls over motionless with their eyes wide open, it is a sure sign that they are
Additionally, dead bodies always have their eyes either closed or ''all the way'' open, with no middle ground. (Again, this stands in contrast to reality, but nobody wants a dead body making a weird face. Not to mention that it's hard for an actor to have half-closed eyes without flickering.) In the latter case, someone who knew the deceased will often come along and manually close the corpse's eyes for "respect" or "dignity". This is always done the same way - using the palm flat open, they pass their hand over the dead person's face, somehow closing their eyes. Nearly everyone does this. Occasionally, the friend will also put two coins over their closed eyes as well, to "pay the boatman" to take them across the river Styx into the afterlife. See [[Due to the Dead]].
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If they're [[Not Quite Dead]], expect to see their [[Eye Awaken|eyes open]]. Otherwise? [[He's Dead, Jim]].
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If a character's eyes close when they die, it's [[Big Sleep]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Anime subversion: In ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' when Jeanne Valois is publicly branded as a criminal, she faints with her eyes wide
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' has one episode where Osaka pulls off Chiyo-chan's pigtails... only to have her keel over dead with her eyes wide open. Don't worry though; it's [[All Just a Dream]].
* Used in ''[[Death Note]]'', with Mello's death.
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* Shimi Skywalker in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' dies with her eyes open and Anakin tenderly closes them before his [[Unstoppable Rage]] kicks in.
* The Colonel in ''Valkyrie'', [[Eyepatch of Power|sort of]].
* An odd variation in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''
* Everyone who dies in ''[[9|Nine]]'' dies with their eyes and their mouths wide open. Justified, seeing the method of death is having their souls forcibly sucked out through their eyes and mouth.
* In the original ending to ''[[Clerks]]'', Dante dies with his eyes open.
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* In ''[[Devil]]'', one of the victims dies like this. When [[Ten Little Murder Victims|another one]] tries to close them, they stay open, and he's told that it doesn't work until someone's been dead for a couple of hours.
* Shoshanna in ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''.
* Nina at the end of ''[[Black Swan]]''.
* Jim in ''[[A Single Man]].''
* ''[[Red Tails]]'': Lightning dies this way after coughing up [[Blood From the Mouth]]. Easy follows his plane most of the way down to the ground [[How Dare You Die on Me!|while screaming at him to pull up.]]
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