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Updated: June 11, 2025
When it came face to face with death, and sin, and suffering, it made them mere occasions for displays of sentimentalism, disgusting because such trifling with the most awful subjects shows a hopeless shallowness of nature. Dickens's indulgence in deathbeds meant an effeminate delight in the 'luxury of grief, revolting in proportion to the solemnity of the topic.
The Fear of Death, even among professing Christians, is now comparatively rare; I do not mean merely among dying men in whom those who have had acquaintance with deathbeds tell us they see it scarcely ever but with the quick and hale.
I ha' been by other deathbeds the Lord reward me for it, as 'tis ter be expected He will and I ha'n't never seed a Christian woman so sot agin goin' as yu are." The reluctant one shut her eyes wearily; the dropped lids trembled for a minute, then were raised upon the same hard face. "She don' look like a labourer's gal, Dora don't," she said faintly.
The Mortmain Act had prohibited the church corporations from further absorbing the lands; but the Mortmain Act was evaded in detail, the clergy using their influence to induce persons on their deathbeds to leave estates to provide a priest for ever "to sing for their souls."
"That's right, Lienhard," cried Wilibald Pirckheimer, and the Abbot of St. AEgidius added approvingly: "You will thereby do something which is pleasing in the sight of Heaven. Yes, gentlemen, I repeat it: there are few deathbeds beside which I have found so little reason to be ashamed of the fate of being a mortal as by the humble couch of this vagabond girl.
The celebrated among such persons he pursued to their deathbeds; Voltaire and Rousseau owed their reputation, with many persons in Knox Church, to their last moments and to Dr Drummond. He had a triumphant invective which drew the mind from chasms in logic, and a tender sense of poetic beauty which drew it, when he quoted great lines, from everything else.
Nature's mighty miracle is still over and around us; and hence awe, wonder, and reverence remain to be the inheritance of humanity; still are there beautiful repentances and holy deathbeds; and still over the soul's darkness and confusion rises, starlike, the great idea of duty.
I acquired a good deal of common sense in Scotland, and learnt to observe for myself, a thing many men never acquire, and on their deathbeds they will never be able to enumerate the opportunities they have consequently lost.
The featured moon on its dial had lifted one eye, as if to watch the child, as it had watched so many generations of children, while the swinging pendulum ticked them along into youth, maturity, gray hairs, deathbeds, ticking through the prayer at the funeral, ticking without grief through all the still or noisy woe of mourning, ticking without joy when the smiles and gayety of comforted heirs had come back again.
The Rector stood uncertain and perplexed, perhaps in a more serious personal difficulty than had ever happened to him all his life before. For what did he know about deathbeds? or what had he to say to any one on that dread verge? He grew pale with real vexation and distress. "Have they gone for a doctor? that would be more to the purpose," he said, unconsciously, aloud.
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