Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-15
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A Resuseitated Ma1VAz1A
Account Of s~

More remarkable testimony as 10
how IL feels to die is added 20 the little
fund Of positive knowledge we have on
that deeply interesting subject BY q
correspondent Of the PeH Natl Gazetfc.
This particular experience is entirely
~corroborative Of all other testimony
we possess on the matter namely, that
1t is not death the foe, the grisly ter
ror. but death the gentle, kindly friend.
and that he takes us into the unknown
not With a cruel grip through ways of
horror, but with a gentle clasp alongs
road both painless snd pleasant. The
y. Y. Sun recently told tho experiences
Of a man who was twice banged into
completes in~sensibilitv and practical
death by fynchsrs in California, who
described his sensations IF death az
being ~momentarily enjoyable, followed
by q painless passing into r~otbingness.
II related also the sensations az
perienced by one who sickenea into
the iu~sensibittty of death by fever, and
of others who fell from lofty places and
we're picked up as though dead. In
all these cases the testimony was I'M
animous that the actual passing from
life TO death Is not only painless but,
in fact, II ysjCaliy p~leasurable.
The correspondent Of the Pal NAL
GozeHe relates that he was skating on
a broad lake. when, without warning.
he fell into an air hole. His impetus
carried him q considerable distance
under the thick ice, and the first thing
he knew of the accident was when he
tonnd himself struggling for life in the
cold water. He came up with his head
AGAINST the solid ice. He thus de-
scribes his sensations rs he lapscd into
Inconsistencies
gasped and swallowed 4 great deal OF
eater. felt my lungs filling. A moment Of
susnense, during which knew perfectly well
was drowning, tnterven0t. and iheT--l DIED.
was drowned and dead; Just before J died:
however, I noticed-del!berately noticed, Tor ]
am physiological by nstUre-that my whole
pasf life did not come up, 80 } had been given
10 understand it would, in a single sasn befor0
me.
The accident bad been seen by other
skaters, and in a comparatively short
time the man was brought from under
the ice. But, he says, he was 20 all
seeming stone dead. Heart antt lungs
had ceased to act. "and there was
nothing more to- happen to me TO make
n,e any deader." Extreme remedies
were applied. and he was at last re-
suscitated. In describing bis sensa-
tons during the few moments that in-
tervsned between his pluage into the
water and his lapsing into the inseusi-
bility of death he says there was moth
ing horrible or terrifying. There was
the first quick shock of the cold water
and a realization of the disaster, a mo-
mentarv struggle for breath. and then
came a dreamy state, of which I've only
remes bers that il was r sweet relief
from the struggle and q ~pleasurabis
drifting into Niryana:
The knowledge that | have thus once cTpe-
rieured in py own person exactly what death
is and tried II fnliy. has had a great deal to
do. / think, with my utter physical indifcr-
enca 10 il. know ffC~ IL feels and, though
ii is monenvarily uncouifcrtsbie, it isn't half
as bad as breaking our arm or having a
tooth dra wu. in fact, the actuai dying itself,
as dying. is quite painless; as Painless as fals
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