Since I say you can believe you're going to die, yet you can't picture it from the inside.

既然我说你可以相信人是会死的，但是你无法想象那种感受。

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So it's not that the result is going to be that I'm going to try to convince you that death isn't bad, but it takes actually a little bit of work to pin down precisely what is it about death that's bad and how can it be death?

所以，这么说,并不是我试图让你相信死亡不是坏事，但是这的确要花点时间来准确地说清楚,什么让死亡成了坏事，和怎样才算死亡？

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