Sentence examples for escape from suffering from inspiring English sources
For one thing, it classes together the actions of someone who broadcasts encouragement to suicide to the world at large with one who agonisingly decides that, out of compassion, when asked to do so, he must help a person he loves to escape from suffering.
Life is about escaping from suffering as much as it is about pleasure.
It is widely acknowledged in suicidology that suicidal individuals are experiencing psychological pain or suffering and that suicide may be, at least in part, an attempt to escape from this suffering.
While some of the clients receiving counselling for non-physician assisted suicide seem to be looking for a peaceful death to escape from current suffering, others have no wish to end life and seem to be looking for reassurance in anticipation of prospective suffering.
These results suggest that life satisfaction may be opposed and relieve psychache, and thus verify Shneidman's 16 theory that if the psychache surpasses the threshold of tolerance and is subjectively judged to be unbearable, intolerable or unacceptable, the individuals would then die from suicide in order to escape from the suffering.
The Buddha described this practice as "understanding the appeal, drawbacks and escape from behaviors that cause suffering".
Instead, his desire for atonement seems to darken his recollections — faced with the irrevocability of his patients' suffering, he is unable to escape from its shadow.
/ Why dost thou deceive / Thy children so?" Leopardi's inner suffering was lightened in 1818 by a visit from the scholar and patriot Pietro Giordani, who urged him to escape from his painful situation at home.
From "Escape from the Senate," by Jeff Shesol.
