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Show Passed Out of Life to Keep Contentment Charles Drlscoll thinks be knows what death will be like when it comes to him. As a boy he was once very III. .He fell life ebbing away, saw members of the family standing around. Then to the watchers and himself he seemed to pass out of life. "1 was away," he says, "so far away that space was different, and altogether alto-gether limitless. 1 was Immeasurably Interested and contented. Ueturtiing to consciousness was like being born again into a strange world. Somebody was pouring whisky down my throat I opened my eyes and a great son.oe of loss and disappointment over whelmed nie. 1 sat there a long-time trying to project myself. In memory, back Into that vast country In which I seemingly had been existing for un countable ages. ' For In" that country a moment seemed eternity. That ex perlence remains a vivid and pleas ant memory to this day. When I think of death 1 think of that etemitj I sensed Wicn the earth-Ilfe seemed to cease to pnll me. And it seemed good, not evil." Capper' Weekly. |