AFTER DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 3

AFTER DEATH

•SIR W. GRENVILLE’S VIEWS. LONDON, Ma y 9. “I mi a surgeon'; and'T |: hav o'st'dhf patients -tAuaiy.tkl up to'their hecks, with, their hearts still beating, arid ... pf ■ their lungs kept going by the long nerve- wire which runs direct down to. tnos.e bits of 1 machinery from the bruin. These people aiways told mo they we. e tne same peisotalKy,” say-, '.sir Wilfred 'Grenville, in Jus book, “Forty ieara In L.ihradot.” “Why they should tease to be a peisog a tall becau ,o I. nick through one mire nerve thread, little thicker than piece of cotton, 1 cannot say. Anyhow, until that last nick takes, place, a magistrate will accept on oath that the person is exactly the same, though' lie may he ‘dead’ below, the eervicid vertebrae, which means his, neck. Everyone knows that- the brain is not ourselves, it is mine exactly as is my jack-knife or my boot. “T make one side of my brain learn Ereach. A /doctor can destroy the lew cells which I have educated, and 1 know no Flench. But I can go to work and educate the calls o:r the other s 'de and learn French again Everybody can known that no part of my body is ‘l,’ only that it and its wires and cells relate me to this material world. T have seen the accident called death of the body more than once; but 1 never saw any reason to believe in the death of personality. Every possible evidence of personal life after death that can. come .to human beings T should say comes through other channels than the five senses that I am conscious of,”