This one thought keeps me from despair:

[Tommy Carcetti]

16. Angels in America

The play and TV Series by Tony Kushner has a dying Roy Cohn being tormented by the vision of Ethel Rosenberg, who he had helped convict and execute.

In the series, Rosenberg is played magnificently by Meryl Streep.

It's all fiction and wish fulfillment, but I still like to pretend that it actually happened.

"I came here to forgive, but all I can do is take pleasure in your misery. Knowing that I would get to see you die, more terribly than I did. And you are. Cause you're dying in shit, Roy. Defeated. And you could kill me... but you couldn't ever defeat me... you never won. And when you die, all anyone will say is, 'Better that he had never lived at all.'"