I put these conditions down because,of course, what I want to suggest is although the sentence everyone dies alone, the claim that everyone dies alone, is one of these things that people say, they're not really thinking very hard about what they mean by it.

我定下这些条件是因为，我想说尽管大家都说，人孤独而死，这都只是说说而已，人们说的时候并没有做什么深刻的思考。

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