Show The Approach of death on death in jh the cio eto eio encyclopedia has the following Z las ia 9 life ilfe D e approaches extinction insensibility supervenes supervened super venes a numbness and disposition to re repose ose which does not admit nf of the idea of su suffering brinl even ven in those cases where the activity of the mind remains to the last lait alid arid where nervous sensibility would seem to continue it is surprising how bow often there hasteen observed a happy state of feeling on the approach of death if I 1 had strength enough to hold a pen I 1 would write how easy and delightful it is to die were the last words of the celebrated wm win hunter during his last moments montaigne in one of his essays describes an accident which left him so senseless that he was taken up for dead on being restored however lie he says my life 16 only hung upon my lips and I 1 shut my efesto help thrust it out and took pleasure in in lan languishing bishin 0 and letting myself go akrit er in le me quarterly terly review records that a gentleman who had been rescued from brownin drowning declared that ll 11 he had not experienced the bil all slight blight b t est of suffocation the ai fream was transparent the day brilliant and as he stood upright he could see bee pe the sun shining through the vater water with a dreamy consciousness 1 that his e eyes es were about to be closed on it forever yet he e neither feared his fate nor wished fo 0 o avert it A sleepy sensation which soothed and gratified him made a luxurious bed of a watery grave |