If you will P-function again, if you have been P-functioning in the past and you will be P-functioning again in the future, P-functioning for person functioning, you will be P-functioning again in the future, then you're not dead.

只要你还可能再度拥有人格功能性，以前有过人格功能性,以后也会有人格功能性，人格功能性就是作为人的各种功能，你将来能够再次拥有人格功能性，你就没有死。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

People in serious accidents with their paralysis as the result of the accident, very often, usually-- again, this is all the average-- go back to their base level of happiness: if they are happy before, they will be happy one year after; if they are unhappy, they will remain unhappy.

遇到严重意外的人,意外导致瘫痪，经常地，一般性的…,再次强调，这是平均而言-,都会恢复到基础幸福水平：,他们以前是快乐的，一年后，他们也会快乐;,如果不快乐，将维持不快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选