Wow yeah, now you say it I think that's true. He has a ton of investment in that idea of pain and suffering being functional. And maybe all this mortification of the flesh isn't just for the soul of Hell's Kitchen. He knows being Daredevil is a sin even if he thinks it's a necessary one, so maybe he thinks his suffering helps balances things out.

Which is another way that he and Foggy/Karen would be talking past each other, because he hears Foggy when Foggy says he doesn't want Matt to get hurt, but to Matt getting hurt is just a necessary part of the process.

(Admittedly I love the pretty tragedy of Matt/Elektra and now the idea that Matt basically "died" for Elektra's sins is giving me way too many feelings.)

Complete religious tangent but I am now picturing Matt deathfic in which the Catholics of Hell's Kitchen basically decide that Matt's service to the community and whatever type of heroic, martyred death make him worthy to be beatified/canonised and Church officials try to ignore their Violent Vigilante for Sainthood campaign in the hopes that it will just go away and the Defenders/Foggy/Karen are not trying to be insensitive? But they are really weirded out by all the pilgrims turning up on their doorsteps, and Jessica really does not want to hear any more babbling about how Matt appeared to someone in a dream or whatever.

Made all the more awkward when Matt later turns up alive, of course.