Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — Sensations When Dying. [ARTICLE]

Sensations When Dying.

The popular ideas relative to the sufferings of persons on the point of death are undoubtedly to a certain extent erroneous, vf which i*‘#fu® pr« nente<l Wider these circumattncA iipiie toto're Muscular agitation, ,hkiepta<tent of any extraordinary send. biOty»o| the nerves of feeling. Thoae Who dtaninaturM death ip the very last stages of existence are scarcely conscious of bodily airing—not _• more than they frequently fadto Ute'-Mtetriious. tad Solicitude of friends. »olenca or accident ettfariehce a degree <jf pain Wthe extent of tbp bodfly mutilation. Hanging.is doubtless an unfjW' Wjw ll ;Jut few, after all, “ shuffle on this mortal coil*’ more easily than those who are suspended by the neck. _Jt is akin to drowning in this resped. ~,The blood immediately daeqlMh,thi.Ji«»d deprives ito£ all oonschflHUoss The efforts t-> inhale the , kir. wMcB ureikcpt up for sometime after the icltjti d is attached, and which causes such •ribfem atonements of. that chest amt. extremities, arise from the influence of the spinal marrow, whose,sensibility is not so scon-destroyed by the epngestion of blood as that of the brain.* Persons who die by decapitation most probably suffer more, though their pain is ' only momentary; ffijs is the case with Svho blow out uieir Drains. The pl 'plodhtad. by ■ a ball passing h iheJoody would be difficult to describe by one who has never experienced ■ ttjbtrtfit;iS/sbiiß’ttiinr singular in thia cm'fliM those Who'are sltotf although the ‘‘kgden jngsfieqger off .death ” may not .•te’ipwpteatedlny essentially vital organ, immediately fall to the earth, apparently under a«v feeling of these apprdLchiiigreturtVto dust, excidiming, as it were, invOTuntarily, “I am a dead mupkV ■ A daggfex xVoudd in .the heart, for the few motnefltsffvhiSh art' consummated in the ebbing of life,; must occasion unutfqeffngs of agony, independent of the mere sensations of pain in. the parts sundered by flip entrance of the blade. The rushingwmt of ilie blood; at each coub vulsive pulsation of the heart, must seem spectaeles'vf the flow of life, are .brushed to dffirtli may dot eirfsfre Instantly, tttfless tl e cranhtm in the casualty. Iwhertfthe skull ».1M fracture# there w probably an inconceivably agony Jor a few ÜBaqpßdsr*a flashing thought of home, friendband family, and all iM over. Those whp are cut into vbv a heavily-burdened jroa^hjfifage, iaust experience some similar sensations’ i» If is broken low down the persontdoes nos necessarily die on the infant. His situation is the most distresswhich can; be imagined. He ’ may live and Irave at nCiftg fdr days', but he cannot move. His face may express all the passions, feelings and emotions; but beyond the motions of his breast and countenance Qis arms are piniohel afhns side; his legs are lifeless, an#«f.Sßstentialiy beholds Iris body in the grave, while he is yet in full , bossessifif bf liW fatuities. The least disturbance oinis a state of insensibility for a length of time, a melancholy spectacle to his friends. In poisoning from arsenic a. ■gieat am-Qd&t of suffering is undergone. /wW "?hc st</htach fe exceedof arsenic is to produce a fatal InflammaXtoaof the.fwAw. Prussic- icid istypid, tad Acts by paralyzings the train. In reflecting outlie horrors which death presents under these different aspects of violence the mind becomes overcome with ; ny)dei?pouib(A. of jlikeaie, where, if the ind be at ease, the final ekit is made tthom/ipy_(rf 4iQsuj revolting exhijjitidns b jdiiy^unerihg.a— Jfew Raoen Register.