Abstract In our contemporary era, anthropologists are increasingly tasked with studying crises of scale—that is, issues related to existential threats such as ecological degradation, inequality, and suffering amid landscapes uncertainty. Such work takes an emotional toll that is rarely acknowledged in anthropological literature. this article, using on plastics a lens, we ask what have offer rea...

The words “pain” and “suffering” are so often used together in clinical practice they sometimes seem to merge into a single concept, with clinicians simply referring to “pain-and-suffering.” Writing in the early 1980s, Eric Cassell bemoaned the fact that the medical literature contained very few studies that specifi cally addressed suffering, although there were hundreds of reports that focused...

BACKGROUND Despite state-of-the-art palliative care, some patients will require proportionate palliative sedation as a last-resort option to relieve intolerable suffering at the end of life. In this practice, progressively increasing amounts of sedation are provided until the target suffering is sufficiently relieved. Uncertainty and debate arise when this practice approaches palliative sedatio...

This paper presents an elegant algorithm for existential quantifier elimination using incremental SAT solving. This approach contrasts with existing techniques in that it is based solely on manipulating the SAT instance rather than requiring any reengineering of the SAT solver or needing an auxiliary data-structure such as a BDD. The algorithm combines model enumeration with the generation of s...

BACKGROUND Presence, concern, compassion and universal or ontological unity between human beings have emerged as crucial to the healthy development of people who have experienced disasters. AIM AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this article was to present a new model for long-term care following disasters. The objective of the model was to contribute to the readiness for long-term care following disa...

From an evolutionary perspective, it is argued in the following exposition that specific expressions of suffering Psalter open up a broadened, deeper and gracious understanding human within kind God’s good creation. many diverse voices as responses to kinds suffering, if hermeneutically embedded post-Darwinian framework, different existential theological horizons interpretation are prompted rev...

Published literature has not discerned end-of-life palliative versus life-shortening effects of pharmacologically maintaining continuous deep sedation until death (i.e., dying in deep sleep) compared with common sedation practices relieving distress in the final conscious phase of dying. Continuous deep sedation predictably suppresses brainstem vital centers and shortens life. Continuous deep s...