Agony

:Agony is also a side-scrolling computer game.

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Agony (Greek αγωνία, agon?a "the suffering, the struggle") is unbearable 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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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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Greek: The noun Greek refers to:...

Suffering: :"Sad" redirects here; for the three letter acronym, see SAD, or for the Qur'anic sura see Sad...

Christians: REDIRECT Christian...

Agony related Images and Photos (experimental)

Agony in the Garden	The Agony in the Garden	The Agony of Jacob c.1648-52	Faces Of Agony
The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965	The Agony of "The Endurance " from "Expedition to the South Pole" by Ernest Shackleton 1914-1917	The Agony of Christ with the Virgin and St. John the Baptist c.1489-93	At La Rochette Three Country People Bitten by a Rabid Wolf Die in Agony