If you line the profile pics up so the eyebrows are at the same angle and length the ears don’t look that different save for shading. The nose is another matter, but never having seen anyone dead this way, I don’t know what happens to cartilage under these circumstances or how long it takes for it to sag. In life there are muscles and blood pressure at work but in death all is gone, so there may be an explanation right there.
I know you are trying to be clinical but disagree about nose. I was with my mom when she died, then an hour later, then at funeral home. She had the same small nose as me. She did not grow a hook when she died!!!