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Yes indeed, these tracts have one flaw - and its an enormous one. They do not focus on, nor seem to admit, God's Mercy. And Mercy is what God is!

I believe that the author intended it this way: if fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then what will stark terror do :0)

These tracts are a bitter pill, showing us the worst of what may indeed be our final end. Their vision spurs us to seek God's Divine Mercy. But no-one should treat them as a complete and true depiction of our encounter with God.

As an antidote to all this starkness, I thoroughly recommend reading about the death of Chopin. I hope I go the same way he did.

But no-one should treat them as a complete and true depiction of our encounter with God.

Just to clarify what I meant by that: what the author has said is true - but it is not complete. After all, who could capture the Day of Judgment in prose? And who can depict the totality of Divine mercy?

Christ said these words to Sr Faustina, when speaking of the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy:

When they say this chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between my Father and the dying person, not as a just judge but as the merciful Saviour.

This is of course 'private revelation', but it speaks to us of what Christ will do on that Great and Terrible Day.