This article is about suffering. For other uses see Agony (disambiguation). Agony can refer to several things. ...

Agony (Greek αγωνία, agonía "the suffering, the struggle") is unbearable suffering. Suffering is any aversive (not necessarily unwanted) experience and the corresponding negative emotion. ...

Agony is the term for extreme pain (internal or external) that may or may not last very long. One may be in agony when hurt very badly, for instance when stabbed or burned, or experiencing some kind of body malfunction. Look up Pain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Agony is mentioned in various religions. Christians refer to Christ's anguish in Gethsemane as 'the agony', and the church near the Garden of Gethsemane is known as the Church of the Agony. This article is becoming very long. ... This page is about the title or the Divine Person. For the Christian figure, see Jesus. ... The Garden of Gethsemane. ... Church of All Nations near Mount of Olivesin Jerusalem The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church of the Agony or the Basilica of the Agony, is located on Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane. ...

Jews use the term for the ethnic catastrophe of the Holocaust in Germany's Third Reich. 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, and is 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. Nine 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 and or death due to symptoms of disease. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. ... Heroin, also known as diamorphine (BAN) or diacetylmorphine (INN), is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...