This scholarly book is a holistically research and review of the negative and positive impact of human suffering. The author pulls from his multi-faceted experiences as a health-care professional chaplain, pastor, and life-long disciple of Jesus of Nazareth, offering timely and very useful information that reveal to the reader the intrinsic complexity of our human nature and our response to suffering. Dr. Thornton received his doctorate in ministry from Luther Rice UniversitySeminary, studying the impact of abuse upon the soul of the individual and providing useful solutions to the problems of domestic violence to individuals and church communities. Inspired by the inward and outward nobility of family members friends, coworkers, and patients that he served, whom all displayed great courage and dignity during acute and long-termed crises, our author penned Suffering With Dignity as a living document of encouragement, strength, and hope for any person who will encounter life's trials an