Mad pain and Martian pain

Torturers in the Middle Ages were used to violently frighten, force confessions, punish, and to satisfy personal hatred towards the accused. (McDonald 1) Torture in the Medieval Times was today’s form of interrogation, but was used with multiple torturing devices. Torture was performed in the torture chambers or the dungeons, usually located in the lower parts of the castles. Before torture was approved the accused would have to be proven mostly guilty, but not completely, before torture was…

The relevance of these depictions are crucial as the confrontational subject of child soldiers indeed does represent a breach of their human rights and degrades our humanity. As westerners we cannot begin to comprehend the psychological and physical pain child soldier’s face each…

Rachels begins a series of arguments for active euthanasia by discussing a situation where a patient is dying of incurable cancer of the throat and is in unbearable pain. It is certain that the patient will pass on in the next couple of days, even with treatment. However, the patient decides that he does not want to continue to bear the pain, even for that short period. Both the patient and his family seek an assisted death. Since it is illegal for doctors to take direct action (which consists…

perfect. This idea is a serious problem that many people refuse to acknowledge today. Though many people feel assisted suicide should be legal, I believe assisted suicide should not be legal because in most cases the patient isn’t feeling any physical pain, it doesn’t take into account people who cannot speak for themselves, and it goes against American ideals. Physician assisted suicide can be classified between euthanasia, and assisted suicide. Euthanasia is the process of painlessly helping…

stages of dying and dead. Dying is the process happened before people actually become dead, and it usually involves a lot of pain caused by the disease. Here, we should consider the latter situation and agree with what Epicurus presented. Following A2 as the premise, people will no longer exist and thus have no consciousness while dead. Therefore, People will lose the feeling of pain after they…

The Nest of Insanity, Pain, and Sadness It’s only been two days in this hellhole. The agony, sadness, and anger, it hurts, please make it stop! As she lies in the cool tile floor crawling, groaning, and holding her head. She wanted the pain to go away it was not physical pain. But that it was mental pain, which continued to strike her in ways that she could never have imagined. Her name was Violet Reva, she was fourteen-years-old. She was sent to Hilltop Mental Hospital because of one stupid…

for me to truly be happy is to stay away from any sort of alcohol. To be taught this at such an early age, I am thankful because I do not want to end up dying alone. Family, friends and myself are the reason I gave up alcohol. Thinking about all the pain and torture I caused myself and the people around me makes me want to vomit. It hurts to say that one bad experience with alcohol was not enough but rather I had to go through multiple horrible experiences to get my head in the game and finally…

Editor’s Note These five poems were selected for their commentary on suffering, pain, and madness. Dickinson seems to have an unusual view on these topics because she views them not as purely negative, but rather as honest and having the ability to edify those have borne them. In some ways, Dickinson seems to portray them as natural reactions and alternatives to the stoicism and artificiality of society. It is interesting to consider how these topics affected Emily Dickinson specifically as a…

across my backside? How I wish I could be leathered like this!!! There were more than a few times during the last five minutes, when I was thinking "when the hell is this going to end", but I then had to push that thought away as I dealt with the pain from the lick that had just…

‘if you punch yourself and don’t feel pain then you’re sleeping’. But what if you pinch yourself and feel it; “...pain can be found in dreams and, thus, the saying that pitching with pain indicates that you are not dreaming is falsified,” (Schredl, 2011). The destroyed credibility of a common saying may surprise some; for those who have experienced pain in dreams, it is not worth gawking over such a fact. I am one of the people…