A cancer patient's suffering isn't necessarily more unbearable than the more indefinite agony of someone living with multiple sclerosis or quadriplegia or manic depression.
Not to mention, of course, that these sufferings will continue for an indefinite future.
Indra Sinha, author of a Booker-shortlisted novel about the impact of a loosely fictionalised version of the Bhopal chemical disaster, has begun an indefinite hunger strike in support of survivors still suffering from the effects of the devastating 1984 chemical leak.
Article 1. Human beings, sentient artificial intelligences, cyborgs, and other advanced sapient life forms are entitled to universal rights of ending involuntary suffering, making personhood improvements, and achieving an indefinite lifespan via science and technology.
Many applications cannot afford to sustain indefinite delay variability in attaining the fair rate (as in PFS) without suffering significant performance penalty [8], but they also do not need the strict delay of one slot (as in delay-limited schemes); that is, they have limited delay tolerance.
An indefinite postponement of action over Berlin was unacceptable to Khrushchev if for no other reason than that East Germany was suffering a continuous "brain drain" as highly educated East Germans fled west through Berlin.
It came at a time when golf's image was already suffering from the travails of Tiger Woods, who is embroiled in a sex scandal that has left him on indefinite leave from the tour.
[ 41] Indefinite solitary confinement, a measure imposed on many of the terror detainees, can be seen as a form of mental suffering.
"My Guantánamo Nightmare," by Lakhdar Boumediene (Sunday Review, Jan . 8, is a chilling reminder that most terrorist suspects imprisoned at Guantánamo were released without ever being charged — but not before suffering the physical and emotional pain of abuse such as stress positions, sleep deprivation and the gnawing uncertainty of indefinite detention.
