Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-08
HOW He FELT WHEN oRcu....
Il Resuscitsted Man Give, A, ~.
Account of Ills Exu.rLsesestl

More remarkable t~estimor.
how It feels 70 die is added 10 n t.
fund of posi;lvc knowledas ~ .as istl
thsst deeply interesting sabissa, ase 9
correspondent of the FIJI Mir
This particular experience Il
corroboratlye Of all other ,ss, sslfel
We possess on the matter-na,n,ao
it is not death the foc, the gr;-,,
ror, but death the gentle. k,ndlv /.
ard that he takes US into tho n'sa
not with d cruel grip throuyb sss
horror, but with a geRtls siasn .s
road both painless and pleasant.
n. Y. Sun recently told the exner;.-
of a man who was twice hangoa
complete insensibility and nra ~
death by iynehers in Calitorp;s les
described his sensations of sss. say
being momentarily enjoyable, fols..s
by q painless passing into nothIus.ss
IL related also the sensations
]perienced by one who sickensd rs
the insensibility of death BY fevar ~
OF others who fell from lofty plses, +
we're picked up as though dead
all these cases the testimony wa. 81
animous that the actual passing ~
life to death is not only painless b,
in fact. physically pieasurable.
The correspondent of the PAL NJ
Gazette relates that he was skating Z
a broad lake, when, without yars;.@
he fell into an air hole. His imnssss
carried him a considerable d;sissss
under the thick ice, and the first III
he knew of the accident was when /.
found himself struggling for life in ~
cold water. lie came up with hi, 49,
against the solid ice. He TIA. -
scribes his sensations as be lapsed "a.
Inconsistencies:
| Kasped and swallowed q great as., .
water. ! felt my lungs fliin2. A monen, !
s~usFense during which ] knew pcr,ectly ~
| was drowning, interviewed. and then-f a.
/ vas drowHed and dead. just before / -
however. | Observation-Disclosures. y rotires -
am ply Biological by nature-that nv IT.
past life did not come up, as ! had been rss
to understand it would,in a single fasa ~,
me.
The accident had been seen by 9th.
skaters, and in a comparatively sbo,,
time the man was brought from ind.
the ice. But, he says, be was to 4
seeming stone dead. Heart and luas
had ceased 10 act, "and there v,
nothing more to happen to me to max
me any deader." Extreme rensai,
were applied, and he was at last +
suscitated. IN describing his sens,
tions during the few moments that h
tervened between his plunge into d
water and his lapsing into the insens
bility of death be says there was neil
ing horrible or terrifying. There y,
the first quick shock of the cold vat,
and a realization OF the disaster. a M
mentarv struggle for breath. and Ii.
came a dreamy state, of which he on
remembers that it was a sweet rel
from the struggle and . pieasura5
drifting into Niryana:
The knowledge that ! have thus onre en-,
rfenCed IN my own person exactly what ds
rs and tried IL fully. has had a great deal
do, ] think, with my utter physical indsf
ence to it, | know how IL feels and. thor
IL is ~momenGarily uncomfortable, il isn't b
a. bad es breaking your arm or having
tooth drawn. In fact. the actual dying itss
as dying, is quite painless; as painless as 4
ing aslgpU.