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But suppose if you think about death you just get too depressed and you can't live life to the fullest.
但假设如果你考虑了死亡,你就变得抑郁,你就没法尽情地活。
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Pretty clearly, to think about death and continued existence and survival, we have to get clear about the nature of personal identity.
很清楚，要想思考死亡,和继续存在并且活着，我们不得不弄清楚个人身份的本质。
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I don't think it very relevant whether the death comes about because you withdraw life support, like a ventilator, or because you actually decide to end that child's life by giving the child a lethal injection.
我觉得这也与造成死亡的原因无关,无论是通过撤走维持生命的仪器，比如呼吸机，还是通过药物注射,结束孩子的生命。
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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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So the way they cope with it-- they think the appropriate response is put it aside, disregard the facts about death.
所以他们应对的方式-,他们认为合适的反应,是置诸不理，无视死亡的事实。
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We have to think about how is it,how could it be true, that death is bad for the person that dies?
我们需要想清楚为什么死亡，会对死者本身造成坏处？
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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。
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What conclusions would we come to about the nature of death if we had to think about it from a secular perspective?
我们能得出关于自然死亡的什么结论,假如我们必须从,世俗的观点考虑它呢？
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That, as I say, is I think a common set of views about the nature of death.
就像我说的，一个普遍的观点,关于自然死亡。
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But I don't think it can be at the core in terms of what's bad about death.
但我认为，这不是死亡的坏处最核心的部分。
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We'll be trying to think about death from a rational standpoint.
我们尝试从理性的角度去考虑死亡。
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Similarly, though, anybody who says, you should never think about the facts of mortality and the nature of death-- I think that's misguided as well.
但是同样地，任何人说，你应该永远不要想那些人必有一死,和死亡的事实-,我认为那也是有误导的。
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It's easy to see how you might think, how you might worry about the badness of death, if you thought you would survive your death.
如果你认为经历过死亡依然能存活，你会怎么想象和担心死亡的坏处，就很容易看出来了。
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But as theorists, we could be interested in the theoretical possibility that the right response is to not think about the facts of death at all.
但作为理论家，我们可能对“正确的回应是,根本不考虑所有关于死亡的事实”,在理论上的可能性感兴趣。
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I don't think that can be the central fact about why death is bad.
我不觉得这就是“死亡有坏处“最主要的事实。
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It made me think about life and death in a new way.
它让我以一种新的方式思考生命与死亡。
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But we can actually evaluate different emotions and think about whether these emotional responses are appropriate or not, so we can ask whether or not fear of death is appropriate.
但我们可以实在地评估各种情绪,看这些情绪反应是否恰当，我们可以探讨对死亡的恐惧是否合适。
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But there are a handful of claims that people make about death suggesting that they think, and they think we all think, that death is mysterious or unique or hard to comprehend.
但是有部分关于死亡的说法,在他们看来，或者他们认为大家都认为，死亡是神秘，特殊，或者难以理解的。
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All right. So again, what I've been asking us to think about are various aspects of death that might contribute to either increase or perhaps in certain ways reduce somewhat the badness of death.
好了，再一次，我们要考虑的是,死亡的各种,可能导致增加或者,在某些方面多少减少死亡坏处的方面。
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But why? What is it about the facts about life and death that seem to make it misguided to think ? we should just put them aside and pay no attention to them?
但是为什么？，关于生和死的什么事实,似乎让我们误以为,我们应该把它们撇到一边，置之不理？
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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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But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question ? and think about how good or bad for me ? is it that there's variability in death?
但是为了重点讨论,死亡的坏处，我要撇开道德问题不谈,转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏,如果死亡有可变性的话？
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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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But I want to pause for a moment and note that this assumption that the way to think about the value of the combination as just a matter of adding the goodness of life and the badness of death and just summing them that way-- that may not be right.
但我想暂停一会并指出,这个用加上生命的好处,和死亡那个的坏处然后求和的方式,去考虑这个组合的价值的假设-,可能并不是正确的。
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