The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-15
J TO DIE IS EASY.
If Sick Person breads Death, He
Isn't So Sick, After All.

II Sick Person breads Death, He
Isn't So Sick After All.
1t is easy to die the physicians say
| dead easy, and il does not hurt. Nor is
it fearful thing for the man or the
woman doing 1t. On the contrary, it
is the most natural of all things except
BIRTH OF the two episodes, birth and
| death, birth has all the pain, as those
| who are born declare by weeping.
| Those who die never weep. SO the Per-
| sian proverb hath it; You wept when
| you came into the world. while those
| about you laughed so live that when
you die you smile and those about you
weep" The Persians were great peo-
pie in the days of this proverb, and,
speaking generally, the world has lived
up to the ancient Injunction. 1t could
not live any other way.
Physicians nurses in hospitals and
clergymen are by more often than 9TH
er folk when persons die, and they tes-
tify to the painlessness of DEATH and
even to its restfulness. One physician
of experience says that. excepting what
newspapers call Casualties, death
comes easily and without terror.
Il knew man in a western town." he
said who was haunted with the fear
of death. He could not throw off the
feeling of dread, do what he would He
became almost monomaniac on the
subject. and without apparent reason,
for he was hearty and strong. had a
good wife, good appetite and pros
porous business. I knew him for years
and until eighteen months ago he was
all right except for this terror of death.
Finally, and most Unexpectedly, he was
taken i'll and died. When he was first
down he was In a fearful state of mind,
but as he grew worse the terror left and
when he knew there was practically no
hope for him he was quiet enough,
didn't worry, but put his affairs in or
der, said goodbye and went to sleep
far more peacefully than he had done
when he was well.
"a man is not exceedingly Ill SO
long as he Is afraid he Is going to die.
It is when he comes TO the don't care
stage that the end Is near. The sicker
he is the less he cares. When his desire
to live weakens there is not much for
the physician to do unless he can slim
ulate him to mental effort. The dying
man is llfeO ana would rest. IL Is more
difficult to stimulate him mentally than
it Is to keep a sleepy child awake.
Sometimes the shock of surprise will
do it. l remember the case of widow
who had left to her the charge of
farm out In Michigan. She was good
business woman and did wonders with !
the land until It was one of the best |
pieces of property In the country
Then, having worked long and hard
she fell III. and her physician, giving up |
hope of her recovery, advised her to
make her will. She was low and could
only whisper when the lawyer camde,
He had great difficulty in catching her
words and had to keep his ear close to
Ter lips to understand what she was
alking about. She went over list of
rlnkets and household belongings she
wished relatives and friends to have for
and then, after long pause
which made the lawyer and the doctor
hink the end had come. the articulated
whisper began again. The widow was
cling what she wished to have done
With the farm. But you have only a
ife interest in the farm. said the law