Despite its gloominess, "How We Die" was a huge success, because it addressed with excruciating honesty mankind's greatest fear.

尽管《死亡之脸》使人忧郁，但因其极度诚实地道出了人类最大的恐惧而取得巨大成功。

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That story is one of several that make up "How We Die", a book Dr Nuland wrote in 1993, after a lifetime of watching the effects of terminal illness.

这是努兰博士写于1993年的《死亡之脸》一书中的故事之一。这本书由几个故事组成，它是努兰博士用其一生的时间观察绝症病人的种种后果之后写成的。

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When people say, 'the end of the world, as we know it,' they may not necessarily mean that many people will die, but that the world will be very different from how we now know it to be.

当人们说‘就我们所知，世界的末日’时，他们也未必是说很多人将会死亡，但世界将会变得跟我们所知的大不相同。

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Or, more generally, we'll worry about how should the fact that I'm going to die affect the way I live?

或者，更通俗的说，我们会担心我将死去这个事实,如何影响我的生活方式？

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How do we get from there to the conclusion that I can't believe that I'm going to die, I'm going to cease to exist as a person?

怎样从中得到一个结论,说明我不相信我会死，我会停止作为人而存在？

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Well, it's interesting, I think, to compare the Greek way of dealing with this human problem that we all have, the problem of death. How do we deal with the fact that we will die?

我觉得,这是一件很有意思的事,拿希腊人的方式来对照,如何处理死亡这个人人面临的问题,我们应该如何面对,我们将会死去这一事实

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Hospice has tried to offer a new ideal for how we die.

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At the FDA they can and do insist that the new treatment be tried out of a few thousand, a few tens of thousands, of people and then we look at how many die from the treatment and how many are made better from it.

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Yet how many billions of people would die if we did that?

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