When the British expositor and teacher, Joseph Parker, saw the suffering his wife endured as she lay dying with cancer, he was perplexed.  Yes, he prayed and cried out to the Lord, but day by day, her suffering increased, and finally she lay still.  When she died, for a week Parker, according to his own testimony, wallowed in the dark despair of atheism.  He said that if he had had a dog who suffered as did the one he loved, he would have put the animal out of its misery.