DREAD OF DEATH.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 September 1926, Page 5

DREAD OF DEATH.

. ‘ ' •• - - ' ii ■ - PAN IT BE ELIMINATED?

SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION SINJCJ IGS.TP3D.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON,. Sept. 16. The Lancet, in an article advocating that greater attention should be given to the dying hour in the hope of making death easier and less painful, points out that there has never .been a systematic investigation into events attendant upon, dying, though there are numerous descriptions of the deathbeds of celebrated people and an immense amount of literature devoted to the postponing Scientific; investigations of the manner of death resulting from 1 different diseases, the percentage of those conscious and: unconscious, and of those who die in pain land those passing away painlessly; the difference between the deaths of young and old; all these are points needing investigation. With such knowledge the treatment of patients..at the dying hour might be made, more humane and delicate, until finally, physical death would cease to be dreaded, since all would know that pain would be eliminated and death made easy, gentle, and placid. Medical men. generally agree that the present dread of death is by no means justified.