"The death of five brave soldiers in a single incident is a terrible and tragic loss and I want to pay tribute, as the whole House will, to their professionalism and to their courage and service,".

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And here I want to distinguish between the individual question about the inevitability of death, and the universal question.

在这里我要区分,死亡必然性的个人性，以及普遍性。

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Still, there are a couple of claims about death that get made frequently enough, about death being mysterious in one way or another, that I want--or special or unique-- that I want to focus on.

但仍然，还是经常出现各种,声称死亡在这种或是那种意义上，是神秘的，特别的，或者是独特的这样的说法-,引起了我的注意。

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But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question ? and think about how good or bad for me ? is it that there's variability in death?

但是为了重点讨论,死亡的坏处，我要撇开道德问题不谈,转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏,如果死亡有可变性的话？

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