The chapter offers a detailed description of the conventional manner of dying in the dystopia, while
dramatizing John's very different expectations at the deathbed of his mother, Linda.
In the early chapters, Henry Foster, the D.H.C., and Mustapha Mond present the facts of death in the
dystopia as well as the social theories behind the practices. Everyone remains young-looking
through chemical treatments, until at sixty death comes in the form of "galloping senility," a rapid
deterioration of mental and then physical powers. Death is characteristically antiseptic, cheery, and
meaningless, underscoring the social belief that the end of any one individual matters very little. The
ward in which Linda lies dying in a
soma
trance, then, is strictly conventional by dystopian standards.
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