Good post, and yeah I agree that you can see a lot of parallels for modern medicine. I find myself comparing crucible to chemotherapy, a violent hell that that offers you the hope of coming out healed and whole on the other side (although crucible voluntary rather than life saving). The underlying question for both Crucible and the resurrection protocols comes back to, do you believe that the resurrected is the same entity as the dead person was. If the answer is yes then they aren't that bad, if no... that becomes a different story.