DIARY OF DEATH
HOW DOES IT PEEL TO DIE? / That is a question which many have asked themselves, but those who could say have departed to that bourne whence no traveller returns. Eugene K. Martis, of New lork, has tried to provide the information. Committing suicide in his apartment by turning on the gas he wrote in a diary until consciousness left him. These notes written by a hand turning cold in death were the legacy ho left to his wife who made the terrible discovery. Written in a clear, firm hand was the first entry: “I am tired, so tiled. I have given life a fair trial, but failed to find interest therein.” Equally firm was the entry: “Listening to wireless while under, going the process of destruction.” Then, a little less legible: “I am still on my feet, but starting to get dizzy.” Still less controlled tbe hand that wrote: “I am weaker." Just readable: i Good-bye, Alice, God bless you. I lore 70U. 1 ’ Then a. wary line—a sentence never completed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11251, 1 July 1922, Page 11
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174DIARY OF DEATH New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11251, 1 July 1922, Page 11
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