Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In short,even though it's true that nobody can die my death for me, this isn't some deep insight into the special nature of death.

简单地说，即便没人能够经历我的死亡，这也不是关于死亡本质的深刻见地。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It might be sort of interesting, but it wouldn't tell us something deep about the nature of death, if people could just as easily die on Tuesday.

这也许有趣，但并不能告诉人们关于死亡本质的深刻道理，如果人们就简简单单都死在周二。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But it wouldn't be some deep insight into the nature of death.

但无法提供对死亡的本质的深刻理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选