It turns out that the urge to purge — the urge to see depression as a necessary and somehow even desirable punishment for past sins, while inveighing against any attempt to mitigate suffering — is as strong as ever.
The Civil War took place in a newly and self-consciously humanitarian age... an age in which family ties were celebrated and sentimentalized, an age that believed, moreover, that it possessed the agency and responsibility, as well as the scientific expertise, to mitigate suffering".
Similarly, the belief that we have moral obligations to mitigate suffering even among distant strangers might be explained at least in part by our having grasped the moral fact that pointless suffering is intrinsically bad and that this gives us good reason to mitigate it where we can.
Quality education opportunities protect children and youth, help mitigate suffering, create hope, facilitate rebuilding and prevent future conflict.
Without appropriate understanding and buy in on the part of healthcare providers, Dignity Therapy--like any novel therapeutic approach--will not be given its fair chance to mitigate suffering for patients facing life threatening and life limiting conditions.
Interventions to mitigate suffering, improve health, help patients to cope with extended waits, and ready patients for more intensive medical and surgical multidisciplinary care are needed but should also be rigorously evaluated to ensure that they are worthwhile.
Mr. Hazan said that he spent much of his one day at ground zero looking for someone to help, but that that did not mitigate his suffering.
We remember Herbert Hoover as an ineffective leader, a president who did nothing to mitigate Americans' suffering during the Depression.
