The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
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 The idea that the great and primal object of union is to be sought in the next generation does not appeal to Edward Carpenter. Why not, he asks, in this generation? Why should the blessedness of mankind always be deferred to posterity? It is not merely, he asserts, the perpetuation of the race which is the pur- pose of love- but the perfection of the race the completeness and adequacy of it's self-ex- pression, which love may make possible today just well tomorrow.
 If there is an art of love, there is also an art of dying and we are as little versed in the latter, Mir. Carpenter holds, as in the for mer. Death he says, seems to be breakup of the unity of the creature" In some ;n- stances it means the getting rid of or shed. ding off of an outworn husk. Many an old person seems to die in this way-the body being the scene of little or no disturbance or conflict, but simply whitening up, while often at the same time the spiritual nature of the man becomes strangely luminous and pene- trating"
 In other cases death is something different. There are diseases, or centers of disease 
 nests of microbes, and so forth or in the mind, like violent passions, greeds, anxieties, fears, rigid habits" The former mode of death is obviously the more normal, natural, and desirable of the two, and the which should be encouraged Mr. Carpenter there fore advises to regulate the body so as 10 prolong life and to render death fairly easy opJ iab1 nd sibly, in a certain close touch with nature and with the roots of human life,' he holds u2 as the ideal. He goes on to say:
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 Ordinary Medical Methods Confuse.
 "The ordinary medical methods-with their drugs their stimulants, their sleeping drafts. their operations, their injections of morphia, serums, and so forth surely acting all the time in the opposite direction. Their tendency surely is to confuse and weaken the central agency, while at the same time they excite and sometimes madden the local centers--tll not unfrequently the patient dies confused, unconscious, wrecked, and a mass of disorders and corruption. The launch ing of ship on the great ocean is a thing that IS prepared TOT. even uulinB ali tnt Pe- riod when the vessel is being built and per fected.
 q am not a professional: but will one write manual on the subject, even from the medical and physiological point of view-Ilow to prepare for death how to go through the great change with some degree of satisfac- ton, command, and intelligence? Above all, may we have a truce to the so common and unworthy conspiracies between doctors, nurses. and relatives, by which for the sake of keep ing the patient few hours Cor at most few days) longer alive, the unfortunate one-in- stead of being let alone and allowed to die peacefully far may be, and as, indeed, in nine cases out of ten he himself desires is. on the contrary, torrnented fdefenseless as he isl with operations inoculations and mcd- ical insults of all kinds up to the very last?
 " The thing has become a positive scandal; and. though the ignorant importunties of lay relatives may sometimes be deplorable, yet the prospects in ones last moments of falling into the hand of professionals is even worse and adds new terror to dissolution"