Here you have a faint image of death.

This post—We Should Not Fear Death—illustrates the beauty and ease of death—

It is of deep purpose—that is to say, for the preservation and perpetuity of the species—that Nature inspired your heart with a terror of death, even as she made the desire for reproduction from the pleasure of the senses, but science and philosophy can dispel the fears, which you feel at the mere idea of death.

It is an error to believe that the instant of the separation of soul and body is accompanied by acute sufferings. 

The anatomist Bichat, in his Researches Concerning Life and Death, clearly established that at the approach of your final moment the brain is the first organ affected, and that hence the dying are spared all pain. 

At that supreme moment moral terror is, therefore, the only impression against which you have to contend in the dying, as there certainly is no physical pain. 

The bystanders and relations suffer far more than those about to expire.

The sleep, which every night takes possession of your being steals over you without your being conscious of it, and the transition from a waking to a sleeping state is imperceptible to you. 

Here you have a faint image of death. 

The dying have no more sense of the passage from life to death than the living have of the passing from waking to sleeping.

 J. R. Francis, The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, Chicago 1903