Well, the things we'll talk about are philosophical questions that arise as we begin to think about the nature of death.

我们要讨论的是,在我们思考死亡本质时产生的哲学问题。

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Well, here's a different aspect of death worth thinking about.

死亡的另一个方面也值得思考。

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Think about your dying, your being dead-- Since that's impossible to picture, that's impossible to imagine, nobody believes in the possibility that they're going to die, that they're going to cease to exist.

思考你的死亡-,既然这是无法想象的，没有人相信,他们死亡这个可能，停止存在的可能。

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And so what I'm really doing is inviting you to take a good, cold, hard look at death, and to face it and think about it in a way that most of us don't do.

那就是我要你们做的，认清，死亡的好和坏，面对它，然后思考它,用我们从没用过的方式。

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All right. Last time we started asking ourselves about what are some of the other aspects of death that might contribute to its badness, or at least other features of death that are worth thinking about.

好了，上一次我们开始自问这样一个问题,死亡还有什么其他的方面,可能导致其坏处的原因，或者至少是其他值得思考的死亡的特征。

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But although I've been at pains to say this is the fundamental bad thing about death, I think it's arguable that-- I think one could make the case that this isn't the only bad thing about death, even if we're focusing on why is death bad for me?

但是虽然我一直在努力阐述,这是死亡的基本坏处，我觉得-,人们有理由认为,这不是死亡的唯一坏处，就算我们重点思考为何死亡对我是坏事？

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It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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