The husband, having suffered the treatment and having lived with the death that the House red-hots had been denying his wife, informed us that he wanted us to stop, to do no more. Knowing that this last prolongation of life was worthless, done out of collective impotence and guilt, I convinced the husband to let us continue, assuring him—falsely?—that her suffering would not be prolonged. Too enraged to cry, he left.
