Do funeral home people have to glue them shut, like mouths?
Could someone close them just by touching them shut?
2006-08-23 10:27:01 · 19 answers · asked by Reina 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I know they do close easily if the person just died. I dont know if rigor mortis makes it harder to close them or not. As far as I know they dont glue them at funeral homes (hey gluing the mouth shut is alot nicer then sewing it shut, lovely mental pics there huh) I dont think the eyes would pop back open as easily as a mouth would fall open (the neck, jaw and face muscle work to keep the mouth open or closed, when rigor mortis passes then there is nothing to keep the mouth from flappin) but yes for the most part someone could close them very easily right after they died (ya know the scene from a movie, someone dies with their eyes open,someone else passes a hand over the dead persons face and it closes the eyes very easily)
2006-08-23 10:33:37 · answer #1 · answered by Jen B 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
The eyes of the recently deceased are fixed wherever the final position was. It takes ATP not only to contract a muscle, but also to relax it. It's the ATP that allows the myosin head to unbind from the actin binding site so that the fiber can either expand or contract. It's calcium that lets the myosin bind in the first place. Upon death, the pumps that work against calcium diffusion stop working. So the calcium flows into the sarcomeres, which allows all the myosin to bind to the actin. This bond is strong enough from the overload of calcium that it can't be broken until the muscle dies and decays a little bit. Either that or someone forcing the muscle to move, essentially tearing it.
2014-01-14 11:21:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Their eyes do not close easily! You need to have your hand gently over their eyes and hold them shut for a little while and if you let go after a few minutes to help the eye lid muscles relax then they will stay shut because the eye lid muscles are now relaxed closed but it is also hard because when you die, your eyes can move out a bit making your eyes more round and big in appearance. I hope this was helpful!
2016-04-09 15:33:53 · answer #3 · answered by Simeon 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dead Person Eyes
2016-11-09 22:57:17 · answer #4 · answered by bagnaschi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, funeral directors do not glue the eye lids of deceased people shut. Yes, the eye lids do remain closed if you pull them down to shut the eyes.
2006-08-23 10:30:06 · answer #5 · answered by Mystral 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
No, they do not stay shut and I read in a book called "Stiff" (about the uses and processing of dead bodies) that they actually do use super glue to keep the lids closed. In Victorian times they used to put a coin on eye lids to weight them.
2006-08-23 10:34:54 · answer #6 · answered by smecky809042003 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Whether or not a person's eyes close easily has more to do with when someone tries to close them. If done in the first hour, before rigor mortis sets in, then they close easily and stay that way, after rigor sets in, they have to be held closed. In the past, coins were used for this purpose, then sewing them shut, now an adhesive, much like the glue we use to wear eyelashes is used to keep them closed.
2006-08-23 10:32:18 · answer #7 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
the eyes don't close all the way when someone dies. funeral homes have to glue them shut.
2006-08-23 10:33:29 · answer #8 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some shut easily but sometimes their eyes slowly open unexpectedly,so it's better to glue them shut as to not startle people during the viewing at the funeral.
2006-08-23 11:12:36 · answer #9 · answered by bumblebee_chola 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No. the eyes recede backwards into the head and the lids don't shut. the ocular cavity is typically filled with a balloon type insert, and lids sewn shut.
2006-08-23 10:31:32 · answer #10 · answered by Robio the Great! 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋