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A review by silentcat7135
Please Undo This Hurt by Seth Dickinson
4.0
Solid story about pain, compassion, and depression. We all find reasons to keep on living. Or don't. If you were in constant emotional pain and there were a way to remove yourself from existence, like It's a Wonderful Life but without Clarence going around showing how much worse off everyone would be without you, would you do it? If you could absent yourself from existence without hurting those left behind?
Reading this reminded me to two quotes that have stuck with me from very different sources.
On the pain side of the equation, it reminded me of Al Swearengen in Deadwood...
"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."
On the compassion side is Robin Williams' character in The Fisher King, who tells the legend of the Fisher King, with the fool who asks the wounded king, "What ails you friend?"
Finally, given the necessarily bleak emotional tone of the story, the final sentences of Please Undo This Hurt offer a small balm of hope.
Reading this reminded me to two quotes that have stuck with me from very different sources.
On the pain side of the equation, it reminded me of Al Swearengen in Deadwood...
"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."
On the compassion side is Robin Williams' character in The Fisher King, who tells the legend of the Fisher King, with the fool who asks the wounded king, "What ails you friend?"
Finally, given the necessarily bleak emotional tone of the story, the final sentences of Please Undo This Hurt offer a small balm of hope.