Sentences with phrase «suffering of a dying person»

We are the ones called to the bedside to witness the suffering of dying people and their families,» said the Rev. Johnnie Green, the senior pastor at the Mount Neboh Baptist Church of Harlem.

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After all, the number of people suffering from ALS pales in comparison to the number of people who die from cancer or heart disease.

The church that struggled to survive the Communists now has the freedom many of its people suffered and died for.

Is it preaching, or knowledge, or political leadership, or results of testing, or seeing people around suffering and dying?

I know that Jesus died so that we might live and in the midst of the violence that God suffers but I still can't grasp why God told his people to kill thousands of people and yet He is such a loving God.

I've always disagreed, and think that even if there is a heaven, I'll be there when I die, because any actual god worth having doesn't need or want your belief, and wouldn't keep a good person to their core out of heaven... let alone burn and suffer for eternity in hell.

We are in the business of alleviating suffering, of permitting people to die with dignity.

Is it really possible that there might be something unspeakably horrible in store for every single person who dies this way, or for the world, that only this kind of suffering and death can avert?

It is humanistic and prophetic — in the sense of exposing the depths of good and evil in those issues with which people struggle, suffer, despair, hope, live and die.

You stepped in to protect the interests of the most innocent and vulnerable person in this human tragedy, the dying father whose suffering is being unnecessarily increased by the theft of his pain meds.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

Hundreds of millions of people have died and suffered under the false argument of «collective good».

The Church in its intentionality is this new historical reality, a body of living, suffering, working, dying people who have been brought into a new relationship with God and one another.

So, as soon as we grow the gonads to make these cruel people die, we ALL will suffer — and die — because of these warmongers, who never go fight — they just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk!

A. Persons, such as infants, who have not committed actual sin and who, through no fault of theirs, die without baptism, can not enter heaven; but it is the common belief they will go to some place similar to Limbo, where they will be free from suffering, though deprived of the happiness of heaven.

Would it not be better, in the time of grace in which we still live, to proclaim to all people the good news, to confess and bear witness that Christ died for all, that Christ suffered also for them?

A rapacious man prospers, a generous man suffers tragedy; needed people die young, worthless scoundrels reach a ripe old age; some children are blessed from birth, others are cursed with idiocy or disease; of two families of like quality and conduct, one experiences habitual good fortune, the other continuous adversity.

Just remember: The first to take on Jesus as a psychologist, though not as a medically trained psychopathologist, was the German scholar and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the greatest critics of Christianity (who ended up suffering an irreversible mental breakdown himself) People do not willingly die for a lie.

The support and love of friends, family, even co-workers or our church, reminds us that people recognize our suffering, and that the person who died mattered.

Moses was represented as identifying himself sacrificially with his people's lot until he desired no good fortune of his own apart from theirs — «Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written» (Exodus 32:32)-- and from such beginnings an illustrious record of vicarious suffering had brought the national history to Jeremiah, who, only a few years before Isaiah of Babylon wrote, had lived and died in voluntary self - giving for the salvation of his people.

That billions of people aren't going to suffer and die?

But if we really experience the Nativity we are faced with the heartache and suffering embedded deep in the nature of the event: No decent place for his birth, the fear of discovery by the wrong people, all the children who died because he was born, the anxious flight into a foreign country.

What remains of the Roman government decides to let people suffer and maybe even die because it refused to recognize the right of the US federal government to rule over it.

Which is, of course, one of the points we have to keep making about Pius XII, who had to make excruciating decisions about what to say and what not to say, because people would suffer and die if he said the wrong thing, but who receives from his critics no such understanding as Roosevelt receives here.

The third answer to the worst kind of suffering — seemingly senseless death — is: «God saves some people and lets others die because he favors and rewards good people.»

It's not judging, it's called seeing the lies that are destroying our nation and families and children and not being afraid to stand for the TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST and not turning my head like all the others while people suffer and die and the name of my Lord and Savior is profaned!

I too may judge her when I have made... «my home among the poor, and not only the poor, but the poorest of them: the people no one will go near because they are filthy and suffering from contagious diseases, full of germs and vermin infested; the people who can't go to church because they can't go out naked; the people who can no longer eat because they haven't the strength; the people who lie down in the street, knowing they are going to die, while others look away and pass them by.»

Is there any human disaster, people suffering or dying that this guy wouldn't have the galls to twist into his own message of «goodness?»

The Bible teaches us that Jesus not does not want Wall Street investors getting rich through the suffering of others (a / k / a drug company stocks)-- how many people suffer physically or even die from drugs that should have never been approved for use — but instead are dispensed — to the joy of investors — only to have patients suffer as a result.

They are confounded by the claim that God is specifically located in a particular person» with a birthday and a birthplace, a nationality, a genealogy, and a biography, as summarized in the Apostles» Creed, of one «who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried... [and] on the third day rose from the dead.»

I, too, know people who are sick and dying, who suffer the anguish of mental illness, who are filled with fear and doubt, who long for a spark of warmth in a cold and heartless world, who search for an intimation of immortality.

The thing is when this next one goes down in a few years a lot of people will suffer and a lot of people will die.

It is a perversion of the gospel to suppose that the person who dies of cancer suffers because of lack of faith.

But if we decide that it is acceptable to treat humans worse than we treat animals, it should not surprise us if many people at the grassroots level decide that as along as they have to die like a dog, they would rather not suffer the fate of an abandoned stray.

If some village decides to do something spectacularly stupid (attack a stronger village, or plant feed corn instead of food), the very worst that can happen is a couple hundred people in that village suffer or die.

Some 214 million people suffered from malaria last year of which 438,000 died from the disease, according to the organisation.

When a large polity does that, millions of people die in WWI / WWII, or suffer from hunger like when Russia (admittedly, not a democracy but the point is irrelevant to form of government) chose to plant corn under Khruschyov.

The session is designed to answer people's questions about how they can control the way in which they die and the amount of suffering they are willing to endure.

The BHA was called to give evidence to the Commission's inquiry into whether there should be a change in law to legalise assisted dying in the UK and made the case that there are good ethical reasons not to limit legal assisted dying only to terminally ill people but to others who are incurably suffering, and to permit voluntary euthanasia as well as assisted dying to maximise autonomy of patients who wish to end their lives but are unable to do so themselves.

We mourn together for all of the people who have died and who are now suffering.

The governor said the reality on ground showed that Nigerians were suffering and dying, with foods and drugs out of their reach, adding that no statistics would make meaning to people who could not afford to eat once daily.

That people suffer degenerative diseases and die with less dignity than they might have wanted, or that murderers are able to get away with it because they manipulate the law created to allow people to die with that level of dignity that we'd all like?

However, it is for parliament to legislate for that change and it has thus far failed to do so, leaving those who help a terminally ill or incurably suffering loved one to die facing life imprisonment, and taking away autonomy and choice for people at end of life.

If successful, that feat would go a long way toward restoring health in the tens of thousands of people around the world who suffered from cystic fibrosis and typically died in their late 20s.

Roughly 30,000 people in the United States suffer from cystic fibrosis, and despite research advances, many still die in early adulthood — nearly all of chronic lung inflammation prompted by P. aeruginosa.

According to the American Heart Association, 90 percent of people who suffer out - of - hospital cardiac arrests die.

People with the disorder suffer age - related diseases early in life, including cataracts, type 2 diabetes, hardening of the arteries, osteoporosis and cancer, and most die in their late 40s or early 50s.

The goal of the ongoing project is to read the history written in these bones: when and where these people were born, what they ate, what diseases they suffered and died from, and how their health varied by social class and over time.

Around 160 000 people suffer from acute kidney failure each year in the US alone, and half of them die.

«I couldn't imagine the suffering of people involved in the Holocaust — both those who died and those left behind,» says Sturdy Colls.