suffering

On-Yomi: — Kun-Yomi: くる.しい、-ぐる.しい、くる.しむ、くる.しめる、にが.い、にが.る

Koohii stories:

1) [applesuki] 20-9-2006(190): Flowers for the old man suffering in the hospital.

2) [PepeSeco] 9-5-2007(26): The derivates from opium poppies such as morphine can be used to tame the suffering of the old.

3) [MichaelAnd] 21-4-2008(20): Old people smoke pot to ease their suffering.

4) [atomiton] 26-12-2009(18): FLOWERS SUFFER when they grow OLD. Trees slowly wither( 枯 ) and die. I find I can remember these together.

5) [salvw] 5-12-2008(16): If someone dies you suffer. You then put a flower on the gravestone.