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To: John Carragher who wrote (64535)	9/11/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 186894

RE: What did Ben die of? An impostume (abcess) of the left lung burst, and he died in a coma April 17, 1790. His two grandsons, Temple Franklin and Benjamin Bache were with him. He had never snuffed, chewed, or smoked tobacco. Kidney stones had caused him intense pain for two years; he had become dependent on opium, and was merely skin and bones. Jefferson, who thought Franklin incomparably the greatest man in the world, returning from his ministry in France to become Secretary of State, visited him and they talked of their friends in Paris. F. gave J. part of his Autobiography on which he had been working. Philadelphia gave Franklin a state funeral. James Madison moved that the House of Representatives wear mourning for a month. It passed unanimously. The Senate refused as did Washington. In Paris, Mirabeau addressed the National Assembly: "Would it not become us , gentlemen, to join in this religious act, to bear a part in this homage, rendered, in the face of the world, both to the rights of man and to the philosopher who has most contributed to extend their sway over the whole earth? Antiquity would have raised altars to this mighty genius, who, to the advantage of mankind, compassing in his mind the heavens and the earth, was able to restrain alike both thunderbolts and tyrants ... Carl van Doren (whose Benjamin Franklin is relied on for this note), wrote "Whoever learns about his deeds remembers longest the man who did them. And sometimes, with his marveloous range, in spite of his personal tang, he seems to have been more than any single man: a harmonious human multitude."