Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Death by Strangulation. [ARTICLE]

Death by Strangulation.

“Death by strangulation,” said Dr. E. L. Henry, of Baltimore, to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter, “is supposed to be the most pleasant way to die. Hanging, drowning, opiate poigoning and asphyxiation with gas, to the person in a normal condition bring pleasant dreams, usually a most beautiful panorama of landscape views floats through the brain, and there is a sensation of floating through space in luxurious ease. But should the person recover, the pain is the most intense of any that could be suffered, and (there are people who are so constituted that this pain is all that is realized, even during the process of strangulation. To these people the sensation is that of being pierced by thousands of sharp needles, and their head seems to be bursting with blows upon the inside of the skull. With such persons it is the most horrible form of death.” i