The shaken Arthur, seeking death, is greeted by a group of heavenly maidens who offer to take him away — not to death, but to eternal sleep.

“Come to me, little mouse. Let me wrap myself around you. I will give you the kiss of eternal sleep.”

A Utah woman who was arrested earlier this week for allegedly giving her a boyfriend a spoonful of drain cleaner told police she wanted him to “go into eternal sleep.”

After witnessing a lifetime of such gulping — compressed into 100 dense minutes of stage time — you can’t help feeling that the eternal sleep of death must come as a relief to our worn-out, word-stuffed heroine.

Second, killing the murderer is too easy on the criminal, as he or she simply gets to go to eternal sleep.