[David Morris]

I agree with the image you see, but it is worth noting that the
combination of "raucous" with "dying" has a certain perversity about
it.  "Raucous" behaviour is usually associated with uncouth wildness,
inappropriate loudness, rough-housing, a certain willful breaking of
decorum.  Combining this willfulness with a certainly undesired death
is the perversity of this phrase.

David Morris

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's the image I get, accompanied by a lot of violent thrashing.
> This is a case of getting the image across very succinctly.