公认的看法认为，用19世纪社会学家奥古斯特·孔德的话来说就是“人口统计学是天命”，而欧洲是由其死亡螺旋式的人口数字注定的。

Received opinion holds, in the phrase of Auguste Comte, a 19th-century social scientist, that "demography is destiny" and that Europe is doomed by its death-spiral population Numbers.

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我们不会去讨论在我们的文化中，面对死亡的社会学态度，以及我们如何试着去避免面对死亡。

We're not going to talk about sociological attitudes that we have towards the dying in our culture and how we tend to try to keep the dying hidden from the rest of us.

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What I primarily have in mind are sort of psychological and sociological questions about the nature of death, or the phenomenon of death.

首先我想到的是一些关于,死亡本质和死亡现象的，一些心理学和社会学的问题。

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We're not going to talk about sociological attitudes that we have towards the dying in our culture and how we tend to try to keep the dying hidden from the rest of us.

我们不会去讨论在我们的文化中,面对死亡的社会学态度,以及我们如何试着去避免面对死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选