I enjoyed the whole fiction. Demas must have listened to the head(in my opinion) because then he might not have been feeling the pain at the end.
There is a difference between stubborn behaviour and freedom of speech. One must not lose his senses. That's what demas did. He lost his senses and in the name of freedom of speech he showed the stubborn behaviour.
Overall the story was great, dlm.
He actually died in the end. Microorganisms ate his body. ;)
That's another way to look at it :)
Thanks for the feedback.