He was grieving at the time, as Foggy sensibly said, and kept catching her scent in the air, so had to check if she was dead.

I love Marvel ^_^.

Plot bunny no. 1 involving the Hand has been modified over the course of the day and now involves Dr. Doom performing necromancy, but it's good to know that there isn't a time limit on raising the dead in Marvel-verse (i.e. they don't have to be only "mostly dead").

And the back-burnered Daredevil fic with evil clone Elektra could definately benefit from the grave-digging scene.