Direct association with Pulp Fiction
There is something rather important to note that it seems many Tarantino/Pulp Fiction fans are dismissing but the character Esmarelda from Pulp Fiction is almost identical to the one in Curdled including the fascination with death. You could have simply had Esmarelda from Pulp Fiction leaving her job, taking a new job and a name change and foom its a direct spin off of a character from that movie.
The actress is so distinctive and has the exact same look but one can simply not get over the morbid fascination with death that took over most of her dialogue with Bruce Willis in the cab and then in this movie it continues with the question of the possibility of someone living when severed from their body for a few moments before death :)