Brave new wrold chapter 14

   John flies to the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying where Linda, has been taken. The phone call he received at the end of chapter 13 alerted him to her transfer there. Linda is in a Galloping Senility ward, the function of the ward is give the patients comfort. This is achieved by putting various perfumes in the air, playing pleasant music and letting them watch a television box. The television box at the end of Linda's bed has been tuned to a tennis match. John hurries to see Linda The ward nurse is completely baffled by this behavior. No one in the World State becomes upset about death, it is not in their conditioning. They are conditioned to see death as a normal circumstance and there is no reason to become upset by it. It is highly unusual for someone to be by a dying person's side, so John's presence it a bit bewildering to the nurse. Then John embarrasses the nurse by using the term mother when he had asks her to take him to his mother, Linda. In order to avoid further embarrassment, she quickly takes him to Linda. When Lenda die John lost control and cry unstoping. The nuerues were mad because they said that that will make the little one would get the wrong idea...