| Show 0 0 IS the physical pain of death depends I 1 suppose on the particular causes cause of death says sass a writer in london tit bits naturally death from starvation or cancer cancer must be very much more painful than death from old age ding Is probably more painful than death itself at some most painful death beds there seems to come a period of calm when theand alie end draws near I 1 think it Is a great pity that for the sake of relations a death agony Is sometimes prolonged prolong edby by the use of powerful drugs I 1 remember a doctor saying io to me at the death bed of a young oft leer if there were relations here heie wo we should lc leep ep him alive for a few hours why should a dy dying ingman men be kept alive tor for these senti mental reason f I 1 suppose a great deal of the painfulness of deatha is due to our struggling against it just as wa when len we we rest resist stan nn anesthetic it causes us great graat discomfort while it if we meekly submit to it the tha sen sensation sailon is delightful so with death sherpa the reason son wo resist list Is that we cling to life this does not n necessarily cess arlly mean that we are afraid to dle die or that we have doubts about immortality and want lantto to havelas much of this world worlds das as possible for fear there esno Is no other the greatest struggle for life I 1 ever witnessed sed was on the part of oc ayoung a young spirl who most certainly believed in the next world he simply refused to die and did lliter literally ally live someday some days longer longed because of bf his determination etwas rather splendid this insistence on life though it probably cost him abot a lot of pain on theother the other hand I 1 remember a young ayoung soldier tin arance aho blea from cheer lack to live the doctor told me mathat that he need not have died Khe haQ another case I 1 remember ofa of a young tommy who had it a long weary illness from an awful wound he too no doubt was bound to lie die but lie he too lost heart it was arranged that lie should go to england but lie he had ceased to care to do so lind re fused the end came rapidly after that I 1 think thin these instances show that much depends depend on will power my own father was fas a man of ax extraordinary tra vitality A 4 month before his death his doctor said to me by all the laws he ought to be dead now ll 11 it was to td believe a faby hours before ills his death at tile the 4 age e of ninety that lie was a dying man his again eggin was a case of the most mosi absolute belief in the other world coupled with an intense desire to live and not die a moment too soon probably the greatest pain in death Is mental I 1 pain I 1 can conceive a 1 wasted life a stupid life and still more a N wicked life making it very painful for a man to die |
