I would be--every 5 minutes that person will die, we will have a new person, despite having the same personality.

我会--，每过5分钟,那个人就会死一次，新的一个人又产生了，只不过他拥有同样的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

.. So that death-- they're optimists in this strange sense, if they think life would've been good, which means of course that that we die is bad for us.

所以死亡-,在这种奇怪意义上他们是乐观主义者，如果他们认为活着本来会很美好，那意味着死亡是件坏事。

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The big problem life insurance had was people would buy it and they'd pay for several years and eventually they would think, well we didn't die, we're losing all this money, let's just cancel the insurance.

人寿保险的一个主要问题是,人们在购买了若干年保险后会突然觉得,我们并没有死,保费白花了,我们干脆把保险取消好了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If I'm right in thinking immortality would be undesirable, then the fact that we're going to die is good, because it guarantees that we won't be immortal, which would be a nightmare, an unending nightmare.

如果永生不值得期许的观点是对的，那么我们终将一死的事实是好的，因为它保证我们不得永生，那是恶梦，一场永无止尽的恶梦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Suppose,for example,that if you really did believe, fundamentally,unconsciously,all the way down-- however we should put it--if you really did believe you were going to die, the horror of that would lead you to start screaming and just keep screaming.

假设，比如你真的相信，根本上潜意识里相信-,你真的相信自己有朝一日会死，这种恐惧会让你一直尖叫不已。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.

同样，如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释，这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上，我们不相信自己会死，然后我们说，看，这让我们有理由相信，我们并不相信我们会死，即使我们口头上说相信。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选