[ WP ] Whenever a person dies of natural causes , everyone around that death absorbs an attribute of the deceased .

Manuel was by all accounts a good man. He was courteous to his neighbors, paid his bills on time and was a rather pleasant person to be around. It was n't a surprise to any of his friends that he volunteered to give up his traits, it meant being flanked by strangers all the time, but Manuel was that kind of person. 
 
 Over the years he was monitored closely; his excrement checked for irregularities, his vitals constantly cross referenced, his movements planned out precisely. It was a lot of trouble, but Manuel was the kind of person to just smile and take things in stride, no fuss on his part. 
 
 Eventually the expected time of Manuel's death came. He was surrounded by stranger and hooked up to a hospital bed, machines beeping and watching him every step of the way, but Manuel was n't troubled. Manuel just smiled his little smile one last time, and breathed his last. 
 
 A man by his side began to shake uncontrollably, quaking with laughter. A woman howled with anger and punched her wife, the wife did n't particularly notice, she did n't even seem to care. In minutes all the volunteers were in one form of distress or the other, and had to be removed from the premises. 
 
 You see Manuel was n't as perfect as people thought he was, he was actually a rather volatile mixture. Manuel was however a sum of his parts, only functioning because he had both calm and expressive traits, with those traits scattered, one could never hope to be as Manuel was.
