Show BEATS IS PAINLESS THE LAST sensations IN THIS WORLD ARE HAPPY ONES uie ind of life approaches nature seema to bring her peculiar agaes and the sufferer passes away without half the agony of sickness 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 tha 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 an aesthetic and the person passes off without suffering half the agony which the sickness causing the death brought to the patient even men meeting a violent death in the jaws of wild beasts have a few seconds of calm preparation before dying which 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 bo likened to those of the dreamy morphine eater who gradually passes off into a semiconscious state where everything sebas hka floating visions of bliss the body and nerves are numb and the excited overwrought brain becomes quiet and unexcited the imagination plays fancifully with blissful pictures and the whole condition of the nervous system is of pleasurable exaltation the drowning man experiences perien ces the same relief and pleasure when the struggles ara over and the cold limbs grow stiff and numb BUSS BEFORE THE END 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 not wish to be roused morphine cac aine ether and laudanum bring to the patient aliis earns mental and nervous condition and patients resent any attempt to rouse them from their dreamy state nature plies her own an aesthetic before the important moment has arrived before the death rattle 13 heard the convulsed frame relaxes the signs of pain aad buffering on the frame disappear and often a smile partly opens the lips the whole body shows signs of a painless moment and if the mind wanders and the tongue utters words they are all of pleasure and joy those who have watched at hundreds of deith beda have noted that death was easy and officers in battle have fied that the last moments of dying sol diers were painless people who have been in the laws of wild beasts in india and have been rescued at the last moment testify that a numbing calmness ws experienced after the first sharp painful snap of the teeth upon them in fact the approach of every creatures fate bangs with it a kindly preparation when life la blissful and full of pleasure the last sensation in this world is then one of joy and not excruciating pain the real knowledge of euthanasia certainly diminishes if it does not en relieve the dread of many of the last struggle which has been made so horrible by descriptions of its agony OF the pleasures of dying may remove great burden from the minds of hun dreda who are inevitably approaching death the old fashioned fashio red notion that death would be terrible had a baleful influence upon those who were fighting insidious diseases and many aggravated their complaints by feverishly dreading the pain of the last struggle in this way a great deal of barm was done and many sufferers hastened their own end even in the case of poisoning the pain suffered is only when the system combats against tho desire to yield to alic influence of the drug sleep generall steals over the person and only the dreamy pleasures caused by the poison and of dying aie again experienced in this world tho greatest pain felt is that of the stomach pump which may ba applied in time to recall the suicide to afe and in every case they rebel against tins most emphatically that the suffering is not so maybe surmised from the fact that persons who have once attempted suicide frequently make the second or third attempt it is a fact that the pain of death if frequently far leas than the pain that accompanies many diseases that are not fatal the pain of rheumatism for m betance is probable more severe than tl usual pain of dying so is the pain neuralgia 0 the pam of the toothache death often indeed canies conies as silently and painlessly as sleep those at the bedside cannot seo exactly when the of life gives GUI with any more certainty than you can tell when a drowsy person passes from semiaon to actual sleep if we were not all familar fam iLir with tho phenomenon of sleep hov we should fear that sweet oblivion how we should stand on tho brink before yielding our brain and body to tha absolute unconscious lesa of healthy sleep dr W B atam |