Why do we close the eyes of the dead?

Question

What compels us to instinctively close them?

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Answer 1

If you’ve ever been in the room with a corpse, you’d know: it’s unnerving.

Dead eyes don’t look like alive eyes — they’re fixed and still, and their reflective qualities start to change immediately. It’s an uncanny valley where the once living person looks like a doll of themselves, and to non-psychopathic people it is disturbing to see.