There's something wrong about lives, something inauthentic about lives that are lived without facing the facts of our mortality and living accordingly, whatever the appropriate responses might be.

那种生活是有问题的，不去面对我们终有一死的事实,并相应地生活的生命是不真实的，不管合适的反应可能是什么。

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The mortality of the human being is a reality and it's of the greatest significance and importance, and of course men are not as strong and as powerful as the gods.

人终有一死,这是事实,这是最重要最显著的一点,当然人类也不像神那么强壮有力

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If,when we interpret the claim everyone dies alone, that just ends up being a slightly pretentious way of saying everyone dies, we might say,oh yeah,that is true and it is a necessary truth, but it's not especially surprising.

如果我们对每个人都孤独而死的诠释，只是装模作样地说明人终有一死，那我们会说，这是真理，也是必要的，但并没有什么好惊奇的。

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There's a short story by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, where the basic point of the story is that of all the life forms in the universe, we, here on Earth, are the only ones that are mortal.

科幻作家Orson，Scott，Card写了一个短故事，该故事的主旨是,在宇宙的所有生命形式中，我们，在地球上是唯一终有一死的生命。

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