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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: On the Saturday before his death his brother and sister-in-law, a
nephew and niece visited him for the last time. He spoke with
some emotion of his approaching end. He said he should die about
eight o'clock, and that at four o'clock an inquest would be held
on his body; he would then be thrown into his grave without
service or sermon of any kind. He asked his relatives to plant a
flower on a certain grave in a cemetery in Sheffield on the day
of his execution. He was very weak, he said, but hoped he should
have strength enough to walk to the scaffold. He sent messages
to friends and warnings to avoid gambling and drinking. He
begged his brother to change his manner of life and "become
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