[looneycat]

pain can only be measured by personal experience. The idea that you can imagine the worst possible pain is bogus. I have been unfortunate enough to have experienced many forms of pain and several times thought I could imagine the worst possible only to experience something well beyond the last imagined worst. right now my 10 scale is somewhere beyond the pain of gangrene, which, for me, put kidney stone somewhere around a 4 or 5.