The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-11-22

Fleisehmann says II a person puts
cord around his neck, Retween the
hyoid bone and the chin, he can draw u
tight at the back or side. without the
respiration being visibly interferad
with, and can for long time continue
10 inspire and expire naturally enough,
because ia this situation compression is
not made on any part OF the air pas
sages. Notwithstanding this the face
grows red, the eyes become little glar-
/ ing, the head becomes hot, then comes
on a feeling OF weight, dizziness. sort
OF distress, and then. al in an instant,
a kissing aud roaring IN the ears. This
last symptom should be especially uo-
ticed, for il is time then to stop the ex-
pertinent"
Devergie states plainly after consid-
ering all the facts that hanging Is
pleasant way Of dying. His words are:
"In suicide, ct the moment of the ap
lplication of the cord. or a few moments
after, feeling OF pleasure manifests IL
self; then eupervenes disoFdered Wis
ion: blush flames appear before the
Eeyes, and the loss Of consciousness
soon follows
All the evidence goes TO show that
death by hanging is painless, and there
| is positively no fact or well founded
Iopinion 10 the contrary. IL this be the
case, then. what is the explanation OF
lit? Simply this: That IN every form
of strangulation che blood-vessels Of
the neck are compressed, ss we'll as the
air passages. A large part Of the blood
is returned from the head by the extsr-
nal jugular veins. which are very near
the surface. and in which the current
can be checked by slight pressure.
Most Of the blood from the brain itself
comes back through the internal iugu-
lars, which lie near, but little outside
I, the carotid arteri =. The walls OF
veins are lax and yielding, so Is TO be
easily compressed, while those of the
arteries are firm and elastic, and il re-
quires considerable force to approx
mate them. Pressure, then, which ID
sufIicientto close the iugnlar veins only
crowds the carotids little further in
ward, and the blood is still poured
: through them into the brain, whence il
cannot escape. When this pumping
process is going on at the rate Of seven
~ strokes a minute. il is easy 10 under
! stand how the engagement Of the yes
, sells Of the brain, in very brief time
reaches a degree which causes insensi
bility.
: Both drowning and hanging are pain
less modes Of dying, because the as
pLyxia which causes death is compli
Gated by other circumstances whicl
render the dAing man so soon uneon
scious that the paugs Of snRocatioI
are unfelt. And the insensibiiity whiel
. results from hanging is 50 insidiou
!. and painless in its approach, that ex
? periments on the subject are very dan
: gerous for any one 10 make alone. II
] probable that many persons, who ar
supposed 20 have com mitted auicide i
j this way, had really no intention Q
Z bringing about their own death. Som
e have been led 20 try the experiment on
a Of curiosity. Others may have done
e out of pique. IL Is notimpossible, no
e perhaps Improbable. that high spirite
e boys or girls, after degrading punish
: ment, should rush Of, as We read of thei
n doing, and hang themselves. Thechil
i puts 8 cOrd around his neck, and step
; OF from a chair, expecting n be 10
lowed. found checking, and released b
Ie the anxious parents. IL be IL not 70
d lowed and his absence not noticet
+, nothing can be easier for him than [
u step up on the chair again, loosen Il
= rope, and no one will ever know of b
10 folly. In the first case he would obtai
le his childish revenge for the wrong l
5 had received, and in the second case
?, would loose nothing, for he is his onl
q accomplice. Utterly ignorant Of b
y danger and intending only prank {
childish folly, he steps from has cha
q into eternity