It's how they were positioned when she died, got stuck that way from rigor. By the positioning of the right arm, and how her fingers are clenched like that, I figure she was struggling against strangulation...so to me, the hands seem at odds to her expression, not peaceful at all but instead a feeling of a futile fight for life.
wouldn't have noticed that at all untill you mentioned it. well spotted. poor girl.
wouldn't have noticed that at all untill you mentioned it. well spotted. poor girl.
It's actually kind of amusing that I can notice details like that, but not when my wife colors her hair or when there's food waiting on the stove for me after work. Absent minded professor syndrome I guess.
It's how they were positioned when she died, got stuck that way from rigor. By the positioning of the right arm, and how her fingers are clenched like that, I figure she was struggling against strangulation...so to me, the hands seem at odds to her expression, not peaceful at all but instead a feeling of a futile fight for life.
Rigor mortis lasts at the longest for 72 hours.
I don't think THIS is rigor.
Besides... how could you perform an autopsy on someone with rigor mortis?