AN EASY DEATH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 7544, 18 May 1903, Page 4

AN EASY DEATH.

The full details of the fatal accident to Count Zborowski in a motor-car race near Nice, just to hand by the mail, makes one think of the popular impression of the awful nature of a death of that kind—the gay departure on an exhiliarating journey, the swift rush of the motor as it almost flies along the road, tho sudden baulk as it fails to]oyercome an obstruction and the final crash from which only mangled remains are recovered. Such p. death may be a great shock to the onlooker a^d a cruel trial to t'aose connected with. the victim, but in most eases it must be an easy departure from this life for the man himself, Only those who hayc been mixed up with a catastrophe of the kind can speak confidently of the impression experienced— the second's reflection as to what is coming, the sudden smash and the resulting blank and peace. The pain and suffering is reserved for those who recover, the agony of coming to, the suffering as the broken parts of th? body begin to mend themselves and reassert their right to perform the functions for which they were originally created, the helpless feeliag which overwhelms one, the long tediousness of convalescence, and the feeling of burdensomeness which sometimes becomes almost too hard to bear. As the Count himself once put it, such an ending as he met with is easily described as '; a lead toss when going hard."