I have observed, as a matter of fact, that it is only people who exceed the age of ninety who attain euthanasia,who die, that is to say, of no disease, apoplexy or convulsion, and pass away without agony of any sort; nay, who sometimes even show no pallor, but expire generally in a sitting attitude, and often after a meal,or, I may say, simply cease to live rather than die.

It is only when they are between ninety and a hundred that people die of old age; die, I mean, without suffering from any disease, or showing any special signs of their condition, such as a struggle, death-rattle, convulsion, pallor,the absence of all which constitutes euthanasia.

"I plead guilty to the former," answered Faber, "but somehow I have never practiced the euthanasia.