Related commentaries – Death

Jarius’s Daughter is Healed – Luke 8:40 – 8:56

Revived from Death by Drowning

What do those who have been revived from death by drowning tell us? They say that they experience no suffering whatever after the initial struggle. The original distress gives way to a feeling of drowsy comfort. Thus, one of them, Grant Allen, distinguished British author, wrote: “The knowledge that I have experienced death has had a great deal to do with my utter physical indifference to it. Dying is as painless as falling asleep. It was only the previous struggle, the sense of its approach, that was at all uncomfortable, but even that was not half so bad as breaking an arm or having a tooth removed.” (Reader’s Digest).