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Agony (Greek αγωνία, agonía "the suffering, the struggle") is unbearable suffering. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


Agony is mentioned in various religions, as among Christians who point to the suffering of Christ along the Via Dolorosa and on the cross, and among Jews who point to the ethnic catastrophe of the Holocaust in Germany's Third Reich. Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as Jesus Christ, as recounted in the New Testament. ... This page is about the title. ... Via Dolorosa (Latin for Way of Grief) is a street in the Old City of Jerusalem. ... For other uses, see Cross (disambiguation). ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...


Agony is suffered in some terminal illnesses such as cancer, sometimes scarcely relieved even by heroin. In many U.S. hospitals, pain is measured on a self-anchoring scale from 0 to 9, in which the patient is asked to rank personal pain; 9 is considered agony. Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century for an active and progressive disease which cannot be cured and is expected to lead to death or a disease for which curative treatment is not viewed as appropriate. ... When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...


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Agonizer - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki (264 words)
An agonizer was a small device worn on the belts of Imperial personnel in the mirror universe, used to inflict pain for minor transgressions.
In "Shattered Mirror" (DS9) agonizers were seen as still being used in the mirror universe.
Klingon agonizers were also seen in use in the Star Trek newspaper comic strip.
Agonizer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (356 words)
In the fictional Star Trek universe, an agonizer is a device from the Mirror Universe reality, that is used to punish misconduct of personnel on board an Imperial starship.
The technology was first seen in use in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Mirror, Mirror".
Malcolm Reed, everyone wears an agonizer, a small palm-sized device clipped to their belt.
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