Suffering

This page is about general emotional suffering. For physical pain, see Pain.

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Suffering is pain or mental or emotional unhappiness caused by bad things happening, like disasters or illness. It is an important topic in philosophy, and religion. Much health care exists to help people who are suffering. It is proposed to be defined as an unpleasant experience as it affects a person at a psychophysical and existential level.

Suffering Media

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  Tragic mask on the façade of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden

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  Mahaviratorch-bearer of ahimsa
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  Landscape with the Fall of Icarusby Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Related pages

• Misery
• Pessimism

Other websites

• Peter Kreeft