Random old finnish folklore I recall reading: The reason you have to close someone's eyes after they die, or cover their eyes with a cloth if you can't, is because the spirit of the newly passed is still in the body and even though it can't move the eyes anymore, it can still see. You must avoid making eye contact with the dead body, because the soul of the newly dead is scared to go alone, and is looking for someone to come with them. If you lock eyes with the corpse, you will be the next to die.
...So is the second corpse still hazardous, then, or are they fine since they have the first one for company?
I must confess I don't really know about the more exact details of the undead buddy system.
if you add “that’s why i left my wife’s eyes open” this becomes a poem
Long ago in a land now dead Where people once sang; Of Hopes and Dreams and beautiful things, One story above all ran:
Look not into the eyes of the dead, For scared and alone they are; Close them quick, lest the soul inside, Takes you on journey afar;
The life inside looks for a friend, Give not to them your name; For a friend in the dead may call; And your fates will be the same.
And scared she lay, my beloved, Lost to our world forever; Alone on this journey she could not go; So into her eyes I look...
Forever.
