“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
George Orwell
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I have to disagree with George on this one. There are things worse than pain.
Watching a loved one in pain is at the top of the list.
George was a poor amateur being only a Brit. Those connoisseurs of torture, the Stalinists probably had a ranking system for all things diabolical.