Dying In Lewis Thomas's Short Story On Natural Death

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In Lewis Thomas’s short story “On Natural Death” he talks about mouse being killed by a cat and how the mouse really feels no pain during his process of dying because of the hormones being released into his body. He then quotes Montaigne and what he had to say about his own personal experience with death and how death should not be worried about.
Montaigne believes that dying is something you do not have to worry about because “Nature” (Thomas 89) will handle it for you. This is comforting because the thought of death or at least your own death can be a very scary thought. No one wants to think about how they will die and when the time comes what do they have to do. It is much easier to to not worry about it because the thought of it could

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