Staring at a corpse - or for that matter, going to look at a man about to die - doesn't remember the man, it just remembers death. It just reminds someone of the finality of it, and of mortality. If you feel you need that reminder, that's all in well... but that's in no way how he would have intended it, or for that matter, why he did it.

[ She says all this gently, but somewhat filled with authority. It's better to be firm, right? The girl knows that she is loved, Elda spelled that out very plainly. But if she's going to continue to have these moods, then Elda...

Well, Elda will soothe it. ]

You aren't rotten.