[ WP ] What do dead things do ?

He lies waiting in a cocoon of mud and broken wood. 
 
 First, the worms come, gnawing at his skin. Mud seeps between the gaps of his eyelids and down into his throat. 
 
 Next, the flesh bloats, expanding and deflating in a strange eruption of numerous, miniscule life. He is alive again, in a different sense- the backbone of an entire universe contained within his form. 
 
 Then, his bones slip apart, compacted by the earth, sinking further and further into the lightless dark... 
 
 He watches this all from the perch of his tombstone, thinking. He glances up and far away and sees his murderer walking down a street. 
 
 He watches and waits for a long, long, very short time until even his name has eroded from the grave stone. 
 
 He is still watching when the sun expands and envelopes the earth in a fiery blaze. 
 
 Later on, when there is nothing left but an inexplicable dark, he sees a hint of light at the corner of his eye. 
 
 There is a door. A white door. He steps forward out of the universe into an entirely new life...
