The Good Lord blessed us with selective amnesia, particularly in respect to pain. Some of us retain more vivid memories, but on the whole, the entire aspect of suffering and pain is only real when it exists, not afterwards. For example, most women have severe pains during childbirth. Having given analgesia and anesthesia to women during childbirth, she have been privy to some of the remarks they have made during contractions. If most women who have given birth were not gifted with this selective amnesia as to the depth of pain, the world might not be as densely populated as it is today. As a patient who had a life-threatening disease, she did indeed have my share of suffering, both mentally and physically. She cannot tell how much my family felt, but she can relate what she regard as the most significant aspects of suffering and its relationship to thanatology.