Dead Bodies

Was researching in the office library today when I stumbled upon a box of evidence. I foolishly picked up a stack of pictures and made the unfortunate acquaintance with a deceased old woman whom met a violent end by being stabbed to death. Dead bodies we see in movies and on television are really air-brushed delineations of what real dead bodies look like. Real dead bodies (those of violent deaths anyway) convey no purposeful expression, but display the violence that befell them in its rawest form. Their eyes are usually hauntingly half open, half closed, and their mouths usually bloody and open as if to scream. Different parts of the body other than the areas traumatized usually have curious physiological reactions to the violence. When you see a dead body, nothing is held back or hidden from you, but all is presented to you in its horrifying state, without apologies or explanation.