When Rabbi Yisroel Salanter was on his deathbed there was only a single individual in the room. Rav Yisroel realized that most people feel very uneasy about being alone in the same room with a corpse. To allay his companion’s fears, Rabbi Salanter spent this last moments in this world convincing him that it is needless to be afraid of a corpse and that he should not be nervous ~ Tnuas Hamussar as quoted by R’ Zelig Pliskin
