Show J I 1 I 1 DEATH BEATS IS PAINLESS THE LAST sensations IN THIS WORLD ARE HAPPY ONES I 1 As A the end of ufa life approaches nature 0 seems seeing to dring bring her peculiar antes and the Su sufferer frerer passes away without half the agony of sickness I 1 A human beings death was formerly considered a great struggle and vivid almost shocking descriptions of the phenomena of dying were given in such exaggerated forms that none cared to think of the supreme moment when death should come to them euthanasia or the pleasure of dying takes the very opposite view and proclaims death to be easy and almost painless As the end of life approaches nature often brings her peculiar unaesthetic anaesthetic an and I 1 the person passes off without suffering 11 half the agony which the sickness causing in the death brought to the patient F even ven men meeting a violent death in the jaws of wild beasts have a few seconds of calm preparation before dying which brings relief and a certain degree of pleasure the great trouble in death is the sickness and pain which carries one to the door of death and it is at such moments that one suffers all the torment and agony of a dozen deaths the pleasures of dying can only be likened to those of the dreamy morphine eater who gradually passes off into a semiconscious state where everything seems like floating visions of bliss T the he bod body y and nerves are numb and the excited overwrought brain becomes quiet and unexcited the tha imagination plays fancifully with rith blissful pictures and the whole condition of the nervous s system ys tein is of pleasurable exaltation the drowning man experiences PC perien ces s the same relief and plea pleasure sura when the struggles are over and the cold limbs grow stiff and numb BUSS BLISS TILE ran em persons frozen in blinding snowstorms snow storms have reported their sensations accurately and they all agree that after a certain amount of suffering which every one feels at first in extreme cold they enter into a blissful state from which they do riot wish to be roused morphine cocaine ether and lau laudanum ad bring to vie the patient this saina sa nj mental and nervous condition and patients resent any attempt to rouse them from their dreamy state nature supplies her own an aesthetic before the important moment has haa arrived before the death rattle is heard the convulsed frame relaxes the signs of pain and suffering on the frame disappear and often a smile partly opens the lips the whole body shows signs of a painless and if the mind wan w m bersand tho the tongue utters utter words swords they are all of pleasure and joy I 1 those who have watched at bund hundreds reds I 1 of deathbeds death beds have noted that death was I 1 easy and officers in battle have tied fled that the last moments of dying soldiers were painless people who have been in tile tho jaws of wild beasts in india and have been rescued it at the last moment testify t that hat a numbing calmness wis experienced after the first sharp painful snap of the teeth upon n the them in in fact alie approach of every creatures rate fate brings with it andl i when life is blissful of pleasure the last sensation tn iii this world ia then one of joy and not excruciating 1 pain I the real knowledge of euthanasia i certainly diminishes hes if it does not entirely I 1 relieve the dread of many mandof of the last straggle wl ch has been made so BO horrible by descriptions of its agony PLEASURES OF DYING I 1 tho the pleasures of dying may remove a I 1 T reat burden from the minds of hundreds who are inevitably approaching death the old fashioned notion that death would be terrible had a baleful influence upon those who were fig fighting ahting f insidious diseases and many aggravated their complaints by feverishly dreading tho the pain of the last struggle in this way a great deal of harm was done and many suf sufferers ferera hastened their own end even een in tile the case of poisoning the pain iain suffered is only when the system combats against the desire to yield to the influence of the drug sleep generally steals over the person and only the dreamy pleasures caused bythe by the po poison ison i aniloff and of dying are again eap exp experienced erien ced in this world the greatest pain felt is that of the stomach pump which may maybe be applied in time to recall the suicide to life and in every case a they rebel against thi this q most emphatically that thesus the suffering is not so terrible may maybe be surmised from the fact that persons who have once attempted suicide frequently make the second or third attempt it is a fact that pain of death is frequently far less thai the pain that accompanies companies ic many diseases that are not fatal tho the pain of rheumatism I 1 for instance is probably more severe than th tb usual pain of dying so is the pain neuralgia or the pain of the toothache death often indeed comes as silently and painlessly as sleep those at the bedside cannot see exactly when the vital spark of life gives out with any more certainty than you can tell when a drowsy person pw passes ses from r amicon ness to actual sleep if we were 0 not all familiar with ith the phenomenon of sleep how we should fear that sweet oblivion how we should stand affrighted on the brink before yielding our brain brai n and body to the absolute unconsciousness of healthy sleep vf dr W B atkin son |