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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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All right. So I've been talking for, actually now a couple of weeks I suppose, about the central badness of death.
好了，我已经谈了，几个星期，关于死亡的坏处。
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And when I asked about philosophy he said philosophy has nothing to say about death, only poetry has something to say about death.
当我问到哲学的时候,他说哲学与死亡无关，只有诗能够解读死亡。
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I ought to say a word about death, in order to comprehend what the Greeks thought. You know, different peoples have had different ideas about them.
我得说一下有关死亡的事儿,好让你们更容易理解希腊人的思维,你们知道,不同人对于死亡的观念是不同的
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Dying is exactly as I composed it in Death and transfiguration."
死亡和我在净化与死亡中","表现的一模一样"
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Have we at least found something interesting,necessary, unique to death when we say,Nobody can die my death for me.
我们是否至少找到一些有趣，必要，独特的东西，当我们说“没有人能代替我死亡。
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Well, if normally there's this super tight connection between my soul and my body, death might be the severing of that connection.
如果我的灵魂和肉体之间,有着超紧密的联系,那么死亡就是这种联系的终结
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But the explanation of what's bad for me,in his having died, is the fact that it's bad for him to have died.
但他的死亡对我来说不好的地方，却同样也是对他不好的方面。
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So again,we don't have any clear, true interpretation of the claim that nobody can take my place, even with regard to dying.
所以我们还是没有一个清晰的，真实的关于没人能取代我的诠释，更不用说死亡了。
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I don't think it very relevant whether the death comes about because you withdraw life support, like a ventilator, or because you actually decide to end that child's life by giving the child a lethal injection.
我觉得这也与造成死亡的原因无关,无论是通过撤走维持生命的仪器，比如呼吸机，还是通过药物注射,结束孩子的生命。
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There'll be a brief period in which, as a cadaver I suppose, my heart will continue to exist.
在我死亡后很短的时间内,我的心脏将会继续存在
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It certainly feels, to my mind, as though it's an extra bad about the nature of death.
当然有这个，在我看来，像是关于死亡本性的另一个坏处。
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And there's at least some comfort to be had, isn't there, in the realization that this thing isn't just true for me.
至少这里还有让人感到安慰的事，因为死亡必然性不仅对我来说是真的。
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Indeed,let me take a moment and read a poem that emphasizes this thought, because this is certainly one central,very bad thing about death.
事实上，让我念一首诗来强调它，因为这确实是死亡的主要坏处。
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In short,even though it's true that nobody can die my death for me, this isn't some deep insight into the special nature of death.
简单地说，即便没人能够经历我的死亡，这也不是关于死亡本质的深刻见地。
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Let's suppose that my personality doesn't get destroyed any sooner than the death of my body.
让我们设定我的人格并没有,在肉体的死亡前被破坏。
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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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That's a little bit misleading, given the view I just sketched where even though I'm dead I still exist for a while as a corpse.
这有一点误导人，根据我刚才阐述的理论,即便我死亡，依然能作为尸体存在一段。
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Just before the death scene, there's a long myth, which I draw your attention to but I don't want to discuss in any kind of detail.
我想让你们注意,在这个死亡场景之前,有一个古老的传说,但我不想去讨论任何的细节
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Well, the thought, of course, is I can't picture or imagine my death.
当然理由就是,我无法想象我的死亡。
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We might say, well, it's not true now Death isn't bad for me now I'm not dead now ? Maybe death is bad for me when I'm dead?
我们可能会说，反正现在不是真的,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我现在又没死,也许当我死的时候死亡对我有坏处？
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I'd die as soon as I forgot anything at all of what I was doing 20 minutes ago.
只要我忘记20分钟前的事情，也就等于死亡。
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Because,of course,if they take my place, they end up living or going through,rather,their death not my death.
因为即便他们代替了我的位置，他们还是经历了自己的死亡，而不是我的。
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Let's just suppose that,for the sake of avoiding those complications, that when my body dies,it gets destroyed.
为了避免这些难题，然我们假设，当我的肉体死亡，它就被破坏。
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What I primarily have in mind are sort of psychological and sociological questions about the nature of death, or the phenomenon of death.
首先我想到的是一些关于,死亡本质和死亡现象的，一些心理学和社会学的问题。
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That's the central badness of death and that's the one I'm going to have us focus on.
这才是死亡的主要坏处,我就将集中讨论这个。
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That, as I say, is I think a common set of views about the nature of death.
就像我说的，一个普遍的观点,关于自然死亡。
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How should one live, in light of the facts about death ? that I've been laying out in the semester up to this point?
一个人应该怎样活着，鉴于我这个学期一直讲到这刻的,关于死亡的事实？
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And as I mentioned earlier then, death is so horrible and life is so wonderful that it could never make sense to throw it away.
当我更早的提及，死亡是可怕的而生活是美好的时,却因为不理解而忽视了。
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Maybe my body--I'm imagining my body dead, but I'm not imagining myself, the person, dead.
也许我能想像自己肉体的死亡，但不能想想自己作为个人的死亡。
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