"It was a large room bright with sunshine and yellow paint, and containing twenty beds, all occupied. Linda was dying in company—in company and with all the modern conveniences. The air was continuously alive with gay synthetic melodies. At the foot of every bed, confronting its moribund occupant, was a television box. Television was left on, a running tap, from morning till night. Every quarter of an hour the prevailing perfume of the room was automatically changed. 'We try,' explained the nurse, who had taken charge of the Savage at the door, 'we try to create a thoroughly pleasant atmosphere here—something between a first-class hotel and a feely-palace, if you take my meaning.'" (Huxley, 198)
Technology provides comfort to those who need it most. Hospice in the Brave New World provides a comfortable, peaceful, and emotional place to pass away your final days.. The hospice in this world helps the dying to be comfortable and not be afraid of death. What we do today for those in Hospice is provide them with 'homey' items that help the ill to die in peace. Technology in the Brave New World allows us to provide certain smells and designs that comfort the brain. This is a great advancement and is beneficial to a society that relies on its citizens to be in a comfortable stable state of mind.
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