Can someone love you enough to watch you suffer?

Maybe Terry Schiavo's parents

I think that it doesn't matter WHAT you are, if you are suffering, you should be put out of your misery (like being in a coma for years and years or suffering from an incurable disease that causes you to die slowly and painfully, not something minor). Humans are really the only species that it isn't considered ethical to do mercy killings. If I was a cat, you would think nothing of putting me down if I had a terminal, extremely painful cancer, but because I'm human, I have to suffer?

I don't believe in God, so that isn't applicable, but if there was a god, I would say that he is very cruel for making people suffer as much as they do. There's trials, and then there is pure evil.

To answer your question, If someone truly loved me, they would want me to be happy and comfortable, not suffering and agonized.

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. Are you asking if it is possible to watch a person suffer and still love them? Or are you asking whether it is possible for a person to love you so much, that if need be, they will stand by and watch you suffer if that happens to be what is best for you.

You asked specifically about God. Well, I think that, yes, even though its true that there has been a huge amount of suffering in the world, and even though it might sometimes seem like God is just standing by and letting us tear each other apart, He is doing what He is doing for a reason. He sent us his son, so that his son could die for us, save us, and ultimately bring us to God. Because he loves us that much. (please don't be offended anyone, if you don't believe in God. This is just what I think).

I am only 14, but I have been though much. I think Yes, I believe true love IS suffering. Love is a passion. Giving it all with out holdin back, loving and caring without fear. This is love, this is passion, this is suffering.

Can we watch someone suffer? Aboslutely, and we try to help them most of the time. But because God IS love, he sent his son to suffer.

There cannot be love without suffering, and there can be no suffering without love. Kinda like without white, there can be no black, because without the black, the white has nothing to compare to.

God doesn't like to watch us suffer. We put ourselves here. Eve ate the fruit and we are descendants of her. Your question makes no sense. No one that loves you would want you to suffer. If you come to Christ, you will suffer, but think of the reward of your loyalty. " If the Lord is for you who can be against you?" You will suffer, everyone will, but its your own fault for your suffering and other people's. You may be thinking of people who were born in poverty or little innocents born with HIV/AIDS, It is the doing of Satan. God doesn't want suffering, we chose it for ourselves.

It's hard to believe in an all powerful, all knowing and loving deity that allows and creates such pain and suffering as we have in this world. Rather, I think a truly compassionate god would not permit it. The horrible things we do to one another are the products of our creator, if there is one. That is not compassion.

If you truly love something you will do whatever is needed to alleviate that suffering. That's why I think it is the utmost cruelty to force a person who is terminally ill to suffer right to the very end instead of allowing them to end it at a time of their choosing.

Was not Jesus placed on a tree stabbed and nailed to that tree (cross). History even recorded it not just the bible. Did not his family watch him die on that cross? Did not his earth mother watch him die on that cross? Did not his heavenly Father or Father of all watch him die on that cross and was so disturbed at that site he turned his face away causing Jesus to ask him why? I believe so. Love is a very powerful thing and some one can watch you pass away but not in just grief but in happyness for those whom are in Christ shall live again.

I think it is like us watching a butterfly struggling to get out of its cocoon. If you help it, you kill it. Do you love the butterfly enough to leave it alone in its struggle - knowing what you know? The butterfly doesn't understand this, all it knows is that it struggles. But you know and because you love the butterfly you watch it struggle. Well - so does God.

No. Watching someone you love suffer is the most unbearable experience anyone can have...Personally I can't , but I am not everyone...I don't recommend it.

Are you serious? Do you mean an actual person or a mythical being? As for a person, it goes without saying, since people do it all the time.

Well, how about as a parent? We watch our children make decisions that cause them to suffer. Do we stop them from making their own decisions because of that? No, we allow them to make their mistakes in order to learn from them.

I imagine God works like that, too.