Sometimes suffering alone can be the worst type of suffering.
Traditionally, in this State and elsewhere, this aspect of suffering has not been treated as a separate category of damages; instead, the plaintiff's inability to enjoy life to its fullest has been considered one type of suffering to be factored into a general award for nonpecuniary damages, commonly known as pain and suffering.
With their different price tags on elemental maternal loss, the cases offer a rare view of the legal system's first computations to set a new value on this singular type of suffering.
"You don't understand the history if you don't appreciate that the involvement of these units in the past ‑ totally unaccountable ‑ has led to the same type of suffering as that that has unfortunately been endured at this time by the families of the two British soldiers who were killed".
The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus once wrote that there was a type of suffering so intense that, even in our sleep, it bores into the heart until eventually, "in our own despair, against our will," it taps into a terrible wisdom.
But we can choose to look at the type of suffering as a joy.
When providers choose treatment based on what patients want, we will have achieved real progress in shielding people near the end of life from the type of suffering Margaret Furlong endured.
66 The results of this survey – 124 clinicians working in palliative care environments in Quebec were included – demonstrate that 'the type of suffering influences a subject's attitude to end-of-life sedation.' Physical suffering was associated with respondents being in favour of the use of sedation.
He saw a hundred different types of suffering.
"The debate gets very complicated, because you have different types of suffering.
I took along only six albums, two from my own stash that I'd somehow neglected in recent years: a Eubie Blake collection (because there are few types of suffering that a bit of Eubie will not ease) and an anthology of Bobby Blue Bland's surging blues and soul hits from the late 1950s and early '60s.
