It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.
The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.