Why? Presumably because they think that facing it is just too crushing and overwhelming.

为什么？，大概是因为他们认为,面对这个事实太打击人了。

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Everybody who dies awake,realizing that they're dying, facing the fact that they're dying, they all,we all of whom that's true, we all die alone,as long as we realize we're dying.

每个人在清醒着，意识到自己死亡的情况下，面对自己死亡这个事实，我们所有人，在意识到自己死亡的条件下，都是孤独的死去。

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So a serious thing, a lot of people get put off by notation, it looks scarier than it is, there's nothing going on here except for notation at this point.

很多人面对符号往往都望而却步,看起来它比这个更可怕,而在这里,其实仅仅是符号而已

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