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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]].
 
The above is universally true of live-action, but [[Anime]] occasionally depicts someone fainting with open eyes (Mikado Sanzenin of ''[[Ranma One Half½ (Manga)|Ranma 1/2]]'' is an example), or dying with half-closed eyes. Open-eyed deaths in anime often have the iris/pupil area of the eye drawn as a dull grayish spot, similar to some types of [[Mind Control Eyes]]. In [[Animation Age Ghetto|Western animation]], [[Never Say Die|death is rare]], visible dead bodies even rarer, and open-eyed corpses unheard of. Except in animated Batman movies, of course. In many Western (not as in Cowboy movies) action films, people will often die with eyes wide open when they are killed by surprise.
 
If they're [[Not Quite Dead]], expect to see their [[Eye Awaken|eyes open]]. Otherwise? [[He's Dead, Jim]].
 
Note that -- perhaps because of [[Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Death]] -- frequently it rains into the eyes. That is the clinching proof of death.
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'''As a [[Death Trope]], all spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** Also Light's death in the manga.
* Kyuzo from ''[[Samurai Seven|Samurai7]]'' dies with his eyes open. Kambei takes his glove off to close them.
* Subversion: in the final arc of ''[[Ranma One Half½ (Manga)|Ranma 1/2]]'', if Akane's eyes close completely it means she has died. They do, and Ranma spends several pages cradling her body, thinking he was too late. She got better upon hearing his declaration of love.
* The [[Hollywood Cyborg|Combat Cyborg]] Due from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' exhibited both this trope ''and'' [[Blood From the Mouth]] upon getting impaled by Zest to show that she's really dead.
* In ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'', after Kakashi kills Haku by striking him with the Lightning Blade meant for Zabuza, he dies with his eyes wide open, and Kakashi closes them for him after getting to safety for a moment. Most other characters, however, close their eyes as they die.
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* The Colonel in ''Valkyrie'', [[Eyepatch of Power|sort of]].
* An odd variation in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''-- Two-Face pulls this, but only because he has no eyelid.
* Everyone who dies in ''[[Nine9 (Animation)|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.
* ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'': Matthew Poncelet's eyes fall shut when the anesthetic kicks in, then flick open when he expires.
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Stronger]]'':
** Poor Tackle. Though it does give Shigeru a drive to win at least. Thats good, right?
** [[Alas, Poor Villain|Poor]] [[Kamen Rider Double|Saeko]]. Though it does give Shotaro a drive to win at least. [[Kick the Son of A Bitch|Thats good, right?]]
* In the final episode of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' Chris Skelton views a video of a disturbing close look of a dying police officer's face in such a fashion after the officer is shot to death. The dying police officer is Chris himself
* An episode of ''[[Fringe (TV)|Fringe]]'' has Walter find a man who's been fused together with a copy of himself, such that one's face is coming out of the other's chest. When the man naturally dies, Walter closes the eyes of the one face...then those of the chest-face.
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