That puzzle aside, it seems to me that once we become physicalists, there's nothing especially deep or mysterious about death.

除了这个谜团，在我看来似乎在成为物理主义者之后，死亡并没有什么深刻和神秘的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We have a couple of passages, one in the book of Numbers, one in the book of Job, which describe this condition in a way that identifies it with death. An aborted fetus is often not often, it happens once in the book of Job.

有两篇文章，一篇在《民数记》,一篇在《约伯记》里，描述了这种,意味着死亡的状况，比如说，一个被流产掉的胎儿就,但这些例子不多，只在《约伯记》里出现了一次。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?

因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选