But if death means permanent cessation of P-functioning, then it turns out the dead weren't really dead after all.

但如果死亡指的是人格功能性的永久停止，那就说明死者并非死去。

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So it turns out that during that period in which they were dead, they were only temporarily not P-functioning.

那么在他们死去的那段时间，他们只是暂时没有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When Janet's ne'er-do-well brother (Richard Denning), who's having an affair with Madvig's sister (Bonita Granville), turns up dead, everyone assumes Madvig is the culprit.

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The plot, plucked from Hollywood's recycle bin by Todd Komarnicki and Jon Bokenkamp, is prodded into sluggish action when one of Rowena's childhood friends turns up dead -- not just no longer among the living, but murdered in a way that provides a grisly sequence in the morgue.

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