I don't like getting into the "no more than they can handle" mindset, because it's right up there along with karmic retribution in terms of why someone is suffering and yet I should do nothing about it. I'm also not at a point where I can understand the nature of death in terms of a spiritually developing activity, so when I see people dying of spiritual ailments (and I have), I allow myself to be completely unevolved and human, and say - they just suffered and died, and that is bad. It makes me want to help.