So although it has seemed to people over the ages that the question, "Is there life after death?"

因此虽然这看起来,这是个老生常谈的问题,但"死后能否继续活着"

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So despite the fact that the claim we all die alone is one of these things that one hears, I think it's just nonsense.

所以虽然有说法不绝于耳,说我们都将孤独而死，我觉得这完全不值一提。

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Still, even though it's not a bad thing that we will die, it could still be a bad thing that we die when we do.

虽然终将一死不是坏事，但我们死时却可能是件坏事。

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You make a life plan, and then, you know, you don't die yet.

比如你订了一个人生计划，然后，虽然你还没有死。

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Well,a fan of the claim that we all die alone might come back and say, Well,in the case of the string quartet, although it's true that I am playing with others, somebody could take my part.

一个相信人是孤独而死的人也许会说，在弦乐四重奏的例子中，虽然我确实是在和其他人一起演奏，有人是可以替代我的。

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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

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