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But suppose if you think about death you just get too depressed and you can't live life to the fullest.
但假设如果你考虑了死亡,你就变得抑郁,你就没法尽情地活。
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Suppose, for example, that, the right way to live, in light of the facts about death, is to live life to the fullest.
假设，例如，生活的正确的方式，鉴于关于死亡的事实，是尽情地活。
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It does seem as though people who have brushes with death change their behavior in significant ways.
确实似乎有过和死亡擦肩而过经历的人,行为会显著地改变。
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Now, of course, most of us are immediately and strongly inclined to think that death is bad.
现在，当然，大多数人都会直接,坚定地倾向于认为死亡是坏事。
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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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So the proposal that death is a matter of permanent cessation of P-functioning versus temporary, that doesn't seem like it's going to do the trick.
所以说死亡只永久地,停止人格功能性的这个说法，也不是正确的。
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If we take this simple straightforward view and say you're dead when you're not P-functioning anymore, then you were dead,on and off and on and off,last night.
如果我们就用那直接简单的观点,说你就是死了，不再有人格功能了，昨晚你就不断地死亡和复活中度过。
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From the mere fact that you can't picture from the inside what it's like to be dead, it doesn't follow that nobody believes they're going to die.
仅从无法设身处地想象,死亡的感觉，不代表没人会相信自己会死。
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Death is, roughly, the end of this set of functioning.
死亡,简单地说,就是一系列功能的终结
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Is it true that we all die alone?
我们都是孤独地死亡的吗？
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Even if you're in a room or a battlefield where people are dying at the same time as you, to your left and your right, dying is not and cannot be something that is a joint undertaking.
即便你处在房间或者战场上,有人和你同时同地死亡，就在你的身边死亡，死亡也不是你们共同完成的。
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And so, the philosopher, who has sort of trained himself to separate his mind from his body, to disregard his bodily cravings and desires-- the philosopher will welcome death because at that point he'll truly, finally, make the final break from the body.
所以,那些,已经为灵魂脱离肉体,以及忽视自己的肉体欲望,做好准备的哲学家,将会欢迎死亡的到来,那时他会真正地,最终地,从自己的肉体中解脱出来
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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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It was astonishing enough that somebody-- but perhaps understandable--that somebody in that situation would decide to take a class on death and then have himself, submit himself, to my getting up here week after week, there's no prospect for an afterlife, it's a good thing that we're all going to die.
某个，某个处于那种情况下的人-,会决定上一门有关死亡的课,然后一周接一周地让自己来上我的课,忍受我讲的没有来世，我们所有人都会死是好事，这是足够让人震惊的，但也许也是可以理解的。
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