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I think the question of ''necessity'' is related to morality in this context, along the lines of ''should it be necessary?'' Your question strongly hints at being a normative question and not a descriptive question. There's quite a difference between the two and this is also a key difference between looking at this issue from a religious point of view or an non-religious point of view.
When I think about this topic I tend to take a normative approach. Suffering isn't as much a necessity or not, but more so an inescapable reality.
It is about physical and mental pain, and while both can be reduced in ways they are impossible to eradicate from a human life.
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