If there is a nobleness in continuing to live, it is a nobleness of suffering, not a nobleness of reforming and transforming the world. Philip Edwards, Tragic Balance in Hamlet
Life is about suffering - don’t you know that? A Bittersweet Life 2005 starring Lee Byung-hun & Kim Yeong-cheol & Shin Min-ah & Hwang Jung-min & Kim Roi-ha & Jin Goo & Kee Ki-young & Oh Dal-su & Kim Hae-hon & Eric Mun& Jeon Gook-hwan et al, director Kim Jee-woon, villain to hero
I’m here to help you suffer. You gave us up, your children, you gave us up … You’re not going to score any more … You are a horrible horrible waste of life. Bad Blood s1e6: You Can Never Hold Back Spring, Declan to father, Citytv 2017
The foundation of all mental illness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering. Carl Jung
The Book of Job: it asks a profound question – Why does God allow good people to suffer? Robert Winston, The Story of God, BBC 2005
The impact had broken up the plane. How arbitrary it was! Why had some people been destroyed while others had escaped with just a black eye? Storyville – Cannibals in the Andes, Roberto Canessa, BBC 2012
We had to do things I don’t think any animal is capable of like eating its own species. ibid. survivor
And we had to debase ourselves as far as any human being is capable of. ibid.
Everything rushes forward because of the deceleration. And then a tomb-like silence. ibid.
There’s the general feeling that we either die or we do this thing. ibid.
Now it is a matter of life and death. Death was lying still and watching everyone gradually fading away. ibid.
From that moment we were taking a leap into the unknown. ibid.
The cold slowly extinguishes you from the inside out. ibid.
Such desperation, anxiety and fear. ibid.
I had a reaction against this God. I just couldn’t understand how He could have killed all of them. ibid.
The group had to be united or we would never win out. ibid.
It’s agonising not knowing how long this suffering will last. ibid.
We would show ourselves to the world in all our nakedness. ibid.
My son said, They lent their muscles so we could walk. ibid.
For Our Friends, Forever Dear. ibid. caption
Within a matter of weeks, freedom riders are boarding buses all over the South. The riders are harassed and jailed, sometimes they are beaten by angry crowds of whites while southern sheriffs look the other way. John Lewis: Good Trouble, news report
Dopesick ***** 2021 starring Michael Keaton & Peter Sarsgaard & Michael Stuhlbarg & Will Pouter & John Hoogenakker & Kaitlyn Dever & Rosario Dawson & Jake McDorman & Ray McKinnon et al, director Danny Strong
The time has come to redefine the nature of pain. And for too long the American medical community has been ignoring chronic pain, and this has created an epidemic of suffering. When we live with we are not living our true selves. We are not living our best selves. Dopesick I, Richard Sackler, family meeting, Hulu/Disney+ 2021
You don’t chase a market, you create it. ibid.
Their sales reps brought it up continuously. ibid. doctor’s evidence
Ten times more than what we’ve spent on anything. ibid. Purdue board meeting
They’ve been marketing the drug and pushing it on doctors. ibid. investigator’ talk
It has transformed the entire district. ibid.
The DEA was investigating Purdue last year. ibid.
Purdue has so many levels of deniability. ibid.
It takes anxiety away. You just take the medicine and go. ibid. TV advert
The largest sales force in pharmaceutical history. ibid. company sales promotion
Less than 1% of people become addicted to Oxycontin. ibid.
Your most effective talking point is the FDA label. ibid.
I think I can make this the biggest drug in the world. ibid. Richard
Have there been spikes in crime related to it? ibid. rozzer on raid
A bag filled with Oxycontin pills for distribution. ibid.
Is there something I should know about the approval process? ibid.
The [FDA] guy that approved it goes to work for the company. ibid. attorney
A new drug. The FDA said it’s safe. Dopsick II: Breakthrough Pain
Let’s hold more weekend seminars to explain to physicians how truly revolutionary this drug really is. ibid. Richard
The drug didn’t always worked as Purdue claimed. ibid. evidence
We’ll figure this out. It’s an excellent drug. ibid. Richard
The greatest painkiller in the history of civilisation … Double the dose. ibid.
Oh yeah, he was Oxy-cuted. ibid. wife reveals death of husband to attorneys
These pills are a lot more dangerous than that video claims. ibid. attorney to promotional doctor
The pills stopped working cause my tolerance grew. ibid. victim to attorneys
But a black kid selling weed can go to jail for decades. ibid.
Emergency Rooms See a Sharp Rise in Overdoses, Prescription Painkillers to Blame. ibid. newspaper article
Bridget: How many kids in your school are on Oxycontin? ibid.
Kid: I don’t know. About half. ibid.
What appears as corruption is just how the system works. ibid. investigating attorney
If it were me I’d charge them with Criminal Misbranding. ibid.
Overdose rates are so much higher on Oxycontin. ibid.
It’s time to double the dose again and I present to you the 80 mg pill. Dopesick III: The 5th Vital Sign, sales promotion
The medical community must make pain the fifth vital sign. ibid.
Individualize the Dose. ibid.
I want to look into launching OC in Germany. ibid. Richard
A single prescription drug is filling up jails in rural areas. ibid.
As we make our family the most philanthropic in America. ibid. family party toast
I try not to sell that stuff … ibid. pharmacist to Bridget
They are lying to doctors and patients about the dangers of the drug. ibid. Bridget
Pain societies have infiltrated the hospital rooms. ibid. rozzer/patient
Did you find a Purdue connection with other Pain Societies? ibid. rozzer/patient back to work
We’re going to cure the world of its pain. ibid. Richard