However, Dr Michael Irwin, the co-ordinator of the Society for Old Age Rational Suicide (Soars), who Ms Pharaoh plan her trip to Switzerland, said she made a rational decision considering she had seen "much suffering" in her work.
Both cities have seen much suffering, although on different scales.
She said that, after years of involvement with medical care, she sees "much suffering in the experience of Western clinicians, weighed down by the demands of their institutions — which are demands to protect the institutions from being harmed".
Kenneth Miller, a psychologist in the Bosnian Mental Health Program in Chicago, saw much suffering among his clients -- they had been placed in concentration camps before migrating to the United States -- yet the most successful feature of his program was not therapy, which most clients rejected anyway.
I never liked the idea of her becoming a doctor and having to work so hard and seeing so much suffering.
During its 15 years, Watchlist has seen much progress towards the alleviation of suffering for children in conflict.
"West Africa will see much more suffering and many more deaths during childbirth and from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV AIDS, enteric and respiratory illnesses, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health during and after the Ebola epidemic," they write.
Finally, imagine that person saying "yeah, I can see how some people getting shocked is electricity, but my shocks can't just be electricity - they really, really hurt!" Or "I can see how magnetism would help me if I believed in it, but I've seen too much suffering in my life to believe that magnetism is real".
He often says he wants peace more than other politicians who have not seen so much suffering and death.
Power, returning from a trip abroad lately, announced that he had seen so much suffering in Europe that he had come back determined to spend his time fighting Communism.
I've seen so much suffering, and what it does to patients, children, and their parents.
