要求大约有一半学生思考正在死亡或已经死亡，并写描述他们想象死后自己身上发生的事情的短篇故事。

About half of the students were asked to contemplate dying and being dead, and to write short essays describing what they imagined happening to them as they physically died.

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一开始Gupta已经解释了一个人的死亡并不是在一个确定的时刻发生，而死亡是一个过程，一个可能需要2分钟，3分钟，5分钟或10分钟来完成的过程。

That’s not how it works. It takes two, three, five, 10 minutes to go through a dying process.

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这已经变成美国男性和女性造成死亡的主要原因，声称每年约有700,000人死于心脏病，或每年总死亡率的29%。

It has become the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, claiming almost 700,000 lives a year, or 29 percent of the annual total.

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