But the coup de grace was an acknowledged if reluctantly practiced fact of life to the battle-seasoned - a human mercy to friend or foe when only pointless suffering lay between a man and death.

What rational reason is there to prolong the pointless suffering and misery of life on earth?

Having attended many deaths where pointless suffering was endured, I ask, When are we going to come out of our denial?

As physicians, we have seen pointless suffering that could have and should have been ended to everyone's benefit, especially the patient's.

I can't love him, because only a monstrous, callous woman could love the man who caused so much pointless suffering.

It is the silence of people who are simply baffled by the spectacle of so much absolutely futile, pointless and inexplicable suffering.

Jews and Christians must also try to make sense of the pointless suffering in this world of constancy and change.

"The war is popular beyond belief," Queen Victoria had said of the Crimean conflict, which would become a byword for pointless suffering.

So I come to You, Satan, knowing that though You represent Evil, You are no supporter of pointless suffering.

Instead of being considered virtuous and desirable, poverty was viewed as "pointless suffering."