And given this existence of this immaterial soul, it's a possibility, indeed a fair likelihood, hat we will survive our deaths.

鉴于它们的存在，这是可能的，也的确是有这样的可能性的，让我们能在死亡后继续存在。

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Suppose that most times and most activities were death free, but certain activities introduce the possibility of dying.

假设大部分时间和大部分活动都是死亡免疫的，但某些活动,会引起死亡的可能性。

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The chance of dying is part of what drives somebody to jump out of an airplane.

死亡的可能性是驱使某些人,跳下飞机的部分动力。

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If the chance of death would add a kind of zest, then perhaps the ubiquity of death is actually a good thing rather than a bad thing.

如果死亡的可能性增加是一种兴趣，那么也许死亡的无处不在,事实上是一件好事而非坏事。

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And the answer that strikes me as most plausible is, it's the very fact that there's a significant chance of death that helps explain why people do this.

让我觉得最似乎合理的答案是，正是有很大的死亡的可能性这个事实,解释了为什么人们这么做。

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But wouldn't it be nice to just have a certain period of time every day when you didn't have to even have it be ? so much as a remote possibility?

但要是每天能有一段特定的时间,死亡对你来说,甚至连一个遥远的可能性都不是,那岂不是很好？

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Death is--the possibility of death-is ubiquitous.

死亡是，死亡的可能性，是无处不在的。

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