New Theory About Death

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 21, 17 November 1950, Page 3

New Theory About Death

Some investigators are beginning to believe that death is not primarily caused by sickness or old age but as a result of ceaseless bombardment of killer rays that rain down upon us from the sun and elsewhere. The young are able to manufacture new cells as fast as the existing ones are destroyed by those rays. As we grow old the cell builders work slower and our defences crumble. Some experts have even suggested that if we lived our lives protected by a wall of lead 20 feet thick our bodies would survive almost indefinitely. Most of us would prefer a span of fun and then death rather than eternal imprisonment in a cell of lead 20 feet thick. There are other experts who declare that rays from human blood, the finger tips, the eyes and other parts are capable of killing yeast and other organisms. For that reason some women can make good cakes while the others are so full of rays the cakes are killed at birth. These investigations have been going on for nearly 20 years now, but the worst that has been found is a type of person whose finger tips can kill yeast used in bread making in five minutes. A baker who needed a kneader wouldn’t need a kneader like that. The exact nature of these and other bodily radiations has not yet been determined. Other experts got busy on onions and other growing plants. They, too, found that radiations were produced. Investigation suggests that ultra-violet types of rays are involved but an onion doesn’t exclude lower brow types of radiation when eaten unwisely.