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Historicism works on a moral hierarchy, in which political suffering is more important than metaphysical suffering or simply incorporates it, and in which "history" is more important than "time" or "life."
However, there is much debate about where to draw the borderline between sedation for refractory symptoms that are of a mainly physical/somatic nature and for those psychological symptoms that are mainly due to existential suffering.
In America, Exley implies--indeed, he shouts it--a person is either a suffering poet or a cheerful drone.
Among the most controversial discussed issues of "terminal sedation" are the questions of when and for which forms of intractable suffering sedation may be indicated.
Sometimes rites of passage, like the experience of suffering, lead to great wisdom.