Show DEATH IS RARELY PAINI UL iut Benest tons loni of approaching dissolution are little known to physicians descriptions of the sensations of those who thought they were about to die but who passed into a more or less profound pio found state of unconsciousness and afterward recovered though intense and realistic cannot be accepted as authentic portrayals of the sensations of the dying since these persons did not die says a medical writer titer in kate fields washington the temporary suspension of all the physical signs of life as in a trance or lethargy may iso BO exactly simulate death that all ail may agree that the person is dead while yet that indefinable something which holds the soul to the body remains and is capable of reinstating the common phenomena inena of life we have no reason to assume that the sensations experienced iced in passing into this state of unconsciousness resemble the sensations of those who have actually felt the earthly house of this tabernacle dissolved unconsciousness is not death it only objectively resembles it physicians at the bedside of the dying while holding the flickering weakening pulse beneath the finger eagerly watch for some word or sign expressive of the sensations of approaching pro aching dissolution nothing however of value ever comes to us indeed many a life goes out leaving behind clear indications that there is no n 0 appreciation whatever of the great overshadowing change that is epou it even though the mind remains clear and active to the last A mother bearing me whisper at her be beside side she is dying opened her eyes and replied ill be better in a minute though when the minute had elapsed she had given her last sigh her last heartthrob heart throb A little girl clinging to her fathers hand one sunny in morning orning said papa light the lamp it is getting so dark and immediately expired ayoung A young man asked why do you all cry I 1 shall get well soon and fell back on his pillow dead abad these expressions show cle clely clearly ly that the putting on of immortality was unaccompanied by sensations indicative of at the change in a reat majority of cases death is preceded ly by a period of unconsciousness more or less profound iria and of greater or less duration in this state the vital spark goes out painlessly and without any evidence of th the 1 e nw mad being illumined for a single instant instantly by returning conscious consciousness zie deathbeds Death Deat EAds beds are rarely painful |