The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-11-14
PHYSICAL PAIN OR DEATH

A paragraph is going the rounds in the
papers giving the opinion Of Lord Bacon
aud others, that the pain Of hanging is
nconsiderable. 1t is asserted, for exam
pie that aftera momentary feeling of suf-
location, bright oolors dance before The
eyes and stretch away into vistas OF indes-
cribable loveliness. There is no reason
to doubt the truth Of this declaration, be-
cause numerous instances have occurred
of persons being cut down before life was
extinct and it was on the authority Of
well authenticated examples Of this char
acter that Lord Bacon aud others founded
their opinion. Moreover, hanging, in its
effects an the human organism, produces
results very similar to those produced by
some natural disease, so that this also af-
fords criterion for judging In case Of
drowning, likewise, the testimony is uni
verssl that the physical pain, up to the
quiet inconsiderable. The same phenom.
ena of notes, stars, aud beautiful lights
dancing before the eyes, has often been
mentioned by persons restored after appa
rent dead by drowning.
1t is nearly cerlain-indeed, as certain
as anything chiefly speculative can be-
that in all deaths the physical suffering
is small. Even where inyalids experience
the most exorutiating agony during the
progress of the disease, nature GENES to
their relief at the last hour, aud life goes
out gently like candle in it's socket
Those who have witnessed death beds
most frequently, especially If they have
been intelligent persons, and therefore
capable of juding, agree generally in con
sidering the physical pain of death as
inconsiderable They say that the con-
vulsive motions, which frequently attend
the parting breath, are not evidences Of
suffering, for that the invalid is insensi-
BILE. They say also, that, when the sem
ses are retained, there is usually no such
spasm.
A leading medical authority states that
scarcely one person in ifty is sensible at
the point of death and some physicians
assert that they have never seen death
bed in which the patient was sensible.
As life fails, nature, II would seem,
benefcently interposes, deadening the
sensibility of the nerves, and OF erwise
preparing the individual for the great and
inevitable change.
These facts should teach all men,while
yet in health, "to put their house in or
DER" Many father by neglecling to
make will, or keep his business arranged,
has left his family an inheritance of liti-
CATION, or eutailed on them the seyerest
losses. Few Of those, comparatively
who, on a sick bed, have sufficient clear
ness of intellect left, TO adjust entangled
affairs, provide for contingencies Of trade,
or even to direct wisely the distribution Of
their estates. Death usually comes rap
idly in the shape Of short disease, leav-
ing time for nothing huta wild and hope
less struggle with the enemy. Or IL
comes so insidiously as TO beguile the
victim and his friends, up to the last
hour, with the hope Of recovery, or at
least Of months Of prolonged life, Men
dread sudden death, and pray to be de-
livered from it, forgetting that, TO most
Of us, death is always sudden, coming as
the Scriptures truly says, "like thlel lE
tho night Il is not for IT'S physical
pain that men should fear death, but lest
Il should oyertake them ere they have
''set their house in orderN To be leav-
ing family unproyided for. or 70 have
put off arrangements for settling up ons's
affairs, is the real pang Of the dying
hour - - rrrr ...