Knowing it was bad and SEEING IT are 2 different things, but I got through it, with mental breaks to re prepare myself throughout, I was only at Sophie's Death at the time I wrote the first post,Thats why he made that sequence optional, it was meant to let you know just how bad things had been for her, without it you eventually would get a similar feeling, but with it you cant help wanting to protect her, even though you weren't originally brought up in "The Life".