Hey, good coworkers are gold! :) But I am still surprised by how charming I find it, having never thought that much of Maupertuis before (Maupertuis not being super cool like, oh, say, Émilie). But I think I really like the idea of Maupertuis, who isn't a genius himself, being friends with Peter, who loves learning but would never have even aspired to be a genius.

But it does sound like he suffered much less, or at least for a shorter period of time, than poor Fredersdorf, and various other people we know, so I'll be grateful for that small mercy, I guess.

And also I don;t know how religious it was, but as selenak pointed out, for religious people in those days a fast death wasn't actually a good thing either the way it would be for us, soooooo.... maybe that was the best he could hope for?