Secondly, qualitative data, which include welfare, achievements, reasoning, benefit, complacency, beliefs and values, suffering, anxiety and grief were investigated through in-depth semi-structured interviews.
Huysmans exemplified his hard-won belief in the value of suffering in his courageous bearing during the months of pain that preceded his death from cancer.
The better position, therefore, relinquishes the illusory appeal of the idea of cosmic justice if there is a God, let God handle cosmic justice and locates the value of suffering in the context of a desert agent giving a wrongdoer the punishment he deserves for a particular wrong.
While it's natural to prefer happiness to suffering, Frankl recognized the paradox that a sense of purpose and meaning often is born out of adversity and pain, and he understood the potentially redemptive value in suffering.
Not surprisingly, wearing glasses received a higher preference value than suffering from asthma.
They even invoked Gerald Klerman's phrase "pharmacological Calvinism" [ 78] to suggest that opposition to pharmacological interventions is motivated by an unreflective, quasi-religious commitment to the value of suffering.
This echoes claims made by the President's Council in Beyond Therapy, and further propounded by Leon Kass, its President, on the value of suffering: Traumatic memories, shame, and guilt, are, it is true, psychic pains.
Although neither group achieved true "pathological" mean values, patients suffering from chronic dizziness manifested stronger impairments in terms of dizziness handicap (DHI) and ADL than those of the temporary group at the time of enrolment as well as during follow-up (ADL).
Finally, no significant correlation was found between FDG SUV max values and FMISO SUVmax values in patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma, breast cancer or glioblastoma multiforme (r values, respectively, 0.47, 0.38 and 0.32; number of patients studied, respectively, 11, 7 and 5) [ 22].
