One of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for two thousand fifteen is to reduce death rates in young children by two-thirds.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Here are two stories not having to do with death per se that may help us get a feel for the oddity of trying to disregard these facts.

下面有两个和死亡本身无关的故事,可能会让我们感觉到,试图无视这些事实的奇怪之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You can see that when you get out to the highest groups here, the highest weights, the relative risk is up at two and a half or three, so that would be a 200% increase in risk for cardiovascular death or two to three times the risk of death.

当我们看图上相对风险最高的这组,也就是体重最大的这组,这组的相对风险大约是2.5倍到3倍,即心血管疾病致死的风险增加了200%,或者说增加了2到3倍

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He died in eighteen ninety-two. But if we can believe his poetry, death held no terrors for him.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

"After a long public debate they had a photograph of Pol Pot and exactly two lines in Khmer saying that Pol Pot is responsible for the death of 3.3 million Cambodian people.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19