Talk:Uneasy Lies the Head/@comment-6418997-20131111065512/@comment-7706473-20131111141233

Pit and the Pendulum, eee! One of my favorite readings of all time is here - Sorry to interrupt, but I couldn't help it. That - and I can answer your question. In times of upheaval - if someone is judged guilty of a crime, isn't it better if they serve 'justice'? Even if they must be kept alive, forced to the stand, and humiliated even in their last breaths..?

The narrator is trying to commit suicide to avoid all that - and the doctors hold them to life so that their last moments will be of unparalleled cruelty.