“MY DOCTORS”
SLOW" DEATH PREFERRED. IDEAL. SAYS FRENCH ACTOR. What is the ideal manner of dying? M. Sacha Guitry, the famous French actor playwright, ■ gives his answer to this question m a little book entitled "Mv Doctors.’’ The work has been printed privately, and is being sent to Parisian medical men. “I confess,” he writes, "that J do not share the opinion of those aa ho say that the finest death is a sudden death. Some deaths are line to describe, but those are of other people. How often have I not heard expressed the wish, '.I should like to die swiftly. Avithout having knoAvn the infirmities of extreme old age!' “For mv own pari, .1 should like to dm at the last possible moment, not only of old age, but even mole slowly, for. never having; had the time to live, I should at least like to have the time to die. Yes. 1 ask for a slew < tea til and every possible infirmity. That is essential il I am to wo av it ho ut too much regret."
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11825, 5 January 1933, Page 6
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