He survived physical and psychological abuse, enduring torture for up to 15 hours a day.
For more than 20 years, it has been hailed as the only surviving physical evidence of the First Temple.
Satyarthi has survived physical attacks, too, and has led raids on factories that hold small children as bonded laborers.
"But people do, of course, and we are finding that pride is centrally important not just for surviving physical danger but for thriving in difficult social circumstances, in ways that are not at all obvious".
But that is very much Bullmore's point: her play, which takes us up to 2010, shows how their solidarity precariously survives physical separation, varied career paths and even mortality.
Since the show's debut in the summer of 2000, Mr. Probst has been the host of the competition to win $1 million among those surviving physical and mental challenges in difficult settings.
Evidence of this nature helped persuade Eleanor Sidgwick, in the years following Henry's death, that his personality had survived physical death and succeeded in communicating with her (Schultz, 2004).
Finally, consider the view, arguably held by Aquinas, according to which the human person survives physical death along with her soul (see Brown 2005 and Stump 2006, pace Toner 2009).
This is consistent with other findings on resilience and post-traumatic growth, and suggests that surviving physical torture might have salutary consequences that temper the trauma.
