Can Pain ever be like a Cleansing Prarie Brush Fire or a Forest Fire?

Burn off the old and diseased and allow for new growth....Can Pain ever be like a Cleansing Prarie Brush Fire or a Forest Fire?
Sure. Have you ever read Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell? The main character, Scarlett, though a unsavory character, faces many challenges, and pain with those challenges. She toughens up, and copes with the aftermath of the War, and becomes successful, unlike others, who forever lived in the past. Instead of a pampered, spoiled brat, she becomes a formidable woman that is afraid of little or nothing, because she already lost so much.Can Pain ever be like a Cleansing Prarie Brush Fire or a Forest Fire?
Not the pain itself, but the fever it causes (to extend and physical metaphor). The pain is pain, but sometimes, if the pain is due to the invasion of the body by bacteria or virsuses, the body raises it's temp to burn the disease agents out.
Pain is the body's way of saying something is wrong. Any pain weakens both the psyche and stresses the physical body.
Pain at least tells us we're alive. But having lived with it one way or the other for more than 50 years, especially the past 15, I could live much better without it.
Pain makes you cry and tears clean your soul and washes the eyes.