Interesting Quote in Shame

To refer back to my post about gender and shame with the umbilical cord, I would like to refer to a quote from Rushdie’s novel, Shame, that I think is really intense. It says “death's belly, an inverse womb, dark mirror of a birthplace, its purpose is to suck him in… until he hangs foetal in his own waters, with an umbilical cord hung fatally round his neck. He will leave this place only when its mechanisms have done their work, death's baby, travelling down the death canal, and the noose will tighten its grip” (244).
I like the part that says ‘death’s belly is an inverse womb’ because it is saying death’s belly is the opposite of a womb since it creates death, not life. And the part that says death’s belly is a ‘dark mirror of a birthplace’ seems to mean that death is just a darker version of birth. I also thought that this was a really horrific scene to describe about a baby going down the birth canal dead.