What I've done is imagine a case in which the personality functioning stops before the rest of the body functioning stops.

现在我要做的只是想象一个,人格功能在生理功能停止前停止的例子。

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In the normal case,I die when my body stops functioning, in terms of the body functions.

通常，我在身体停止运作时就死亡了，这说的是在生理功能停止。

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And let's just suppose that we're dealing with the normal case, where the body functioning stops at the same time as the personality functioning stops.

让我们假设我们在处理通常的案例，生理功能通常和人格功能同时停止。

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In the normal case,I'm in a car accident or whatever it is, and my body stops functioning,my personality stops functioning, and you're left with a corpse.

通常，在车祸或者什么情况作用下，我的生理功能和人格功能同时停止，剩下的就是一具尸体。

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All right,so this is something that's-- If the personality function's been destroyed, can't be recovered,can't be fixed, but the rest of the bodily functioning is still going on.

如果有这样的例子-,人格功能被破坏，无法修复，但剩下的生理功能仍在继续。

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Star two says no,no,death occurs when bodily functioning stops.

星号二说，不，死亡在生理功能停止时发生。

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So look,what I've just been talking about for the last half hour or so is the fact that we've got to get clear, in thinking about the nature of death, as to whether or not the crucial moment is the moment when the personality functioning stops or the moment when the bodily functioning stops.

过去的半个小时,我一直在说我们要搞清，死亡的本质，是人格功能还是生理功能的停止,定义了死亡。

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