Brave New World Chapter 13-14- Death in the BNW

(Individuality is/ is not harmful)

"Quick, quick!" He caught her by the sleeve, dragged her after him. "Quick! Something's happened. I've killed her."

By the time they were back at the end of the ward Linda was dead.

The Savage stood for a moment in frozen silence, then fell on his knees beside the bed and, covering his face with his hands, sobbed uncontrollably.

The nurse stood irresolute, looking now at the kneeling figure by the bed (the scandalous exhibition!) and now (poor children!) at the twins who had stopped their hunting of the zipper and were staring from the other end of the ward, staring with all their eyes and nostrils at the shocking scene that was being enacted round Bed 20. Should she speak to him? try to bring him back to a sense of decency? remind him of where he was? of what fatal mischief he might do to these poor innocents? Undoing all their wholesome death-conditioning with this disgusting outcry–as though death were something terrible, as though any one mattered as much as all that! It might give them the most disastrous ideas about the subject, might upset them into reacting in the entirely wrong, the utterly anti-social way" (Huxley 211). 

In Chapters 13 through 14, John begins to open up about the things that he believes in, like marrying Lenina...etc. But when his mother dies he gets offended when those around him in that society don't understand. Being that John does has not been conditioned and grew up the reservation, he feels sadness, pain, and guilt. In this instance I think its best that John does feel because if he were like the others and just used soma to subside his feelings than he would never experience life. Also with Linda, she was on soma and did not even recognize her own son and she died without knowing. I think being individual in this society is crucial in order to fully experience the world and life.