And about pain: if it's unbearable, death will end it quickly. If it lasts a long time, it must be bearable. Meanwhile, the mind — which is everything — can cut itself off from the body. It can stop all connection and sympathy with the body and keep its peace. Pain doesn't damage your reasoning. As for the parts that hurt, let them speak for themselves if they can.
And as concerning pain, that that which is intolerable is soon ended by death; and that which holds long must needs be tolerable; and that the mind in the meantime (which is all in all) may by way of interclusion, or interception, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquillity. Thy understanding is not made worse by it. As for those parts that suffer, let them, if they can, declare their grief themselves.