Agony

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Agony (Greek αγωνία, agonía "the suffering, the struggle") is unbearable suffering.

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Greek - Suffering

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Agony is mentioned in various religions, as among Christians who point to the suffering of Christ along the via dolorosa and on the cross, and among Jews who point to the ethnic catastrophe of the Holocaust in Germany's Third Reich.

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Christians - Christ - Via dolorosa - Holocaust - Third Reich

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Agony is suffered in some terminal illnesses such as cancer, sometimes scarcely relieved even by heroin. In many U.S. hospitals, pain is measured on a self-anchoring scale from 0 to 9, in which the patient is asked to rank personal pain; 9 is considered agony.

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Terminal illness - Heroin

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