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...confirmed agnostic (see p. 22), he confronted death with equanimity tinged by curiosity. His personal physician, Dr. Hubert S. Howe, who with the second Mrs. Edison, was present during his last illness, revealed two utterances which interrupted the coma of Edison's last days. Said Dr. Howe: "When asked if he believed in immortality, he answered briefly, 'No.' A few days before he passed away, he was sitting in his chair apparently enjoying a pleasant dream. Suddenly opening his eyes ... his face illuminated with a smile, he said: 'It is very beautiful over there...
...Plymouth, Wis., James Mullen of Pittsburgh, drank deep of stimulants, entered a post office, robbed it, fell into a coma there. He was arrested, but escaped. Federal authorities searching for him found him unconscious from drink in a Des Moines warehouse he had robbed...
...name (Lawrence calls Him simply "the man who died") this anti Christian searcher after Christ tells what might have happened to Jesus if He did not really die on the cross. As with George Moore's hero in The Brook Kerith, the agony of the crucifixion and the coma of the burial stripped the Man of his Messiahship. Moore's hero in his revulsion thought he had been wrong: Lawrence's, that his mission was finished. Lawrence's Man showed himself to his disciples but would have nothing more to do with them; he wanted merely...
Once he had said he wanted to die with Beethoven's seventh symphony ringing in his ears. But pneumonia victims are in coma long before the end. Perhaps the last sound he heard was the mockingbirds singing in the April sunshine...
Last week Dr. Müller's last hours ebbed away in complete coma. He died after a gall-bladder operation at Berlin, aged 54. So fast have German Cabinets fallen since the War that Dr. Müller's short total period of two years as Chancellor stands as the second longest record...