Exhausting the great implies necessarily letting-go one's residing.

... cave and naked person, bent with disease or old age.

The funeral sandwiched between dry ice and architectural antiques. Life-sized moose and gnomes and art deco Metro stations of Europe. Several bars. The funeral has a half-opened casket. At the time, this didn't seem strange, now I wonder about the legs, did they make them up too? Would they shave your legs for death?