No Escape from Suffering
... According to the Buddha in his discourse two-and-a-half centuries ago, these are the eight sufferings which everyone will experience: (1) Suffering of Birth (2) Suffering of Old Age (3) Suffering of Sickness (4) Suffering of Death (5) Suffering of being apart from the loved ones (6) Suffering being together with the despised ones (7) Suffering of not getting what one wants (8) Suffering of the flourishing of the physical senses and perception of the mind The minute you are born, you are every step nearer to death.