Why can't I be dead?

干嘛我就不能死去呢？

youdao

Since most startups fail, I expect this commenter may be correct when he says "I predict 2007 will be the year of the dead pool".

由于大多数初创公司都失败了，我认为这位评论者说的“我预测2007年将是死亡之年”可能是正确的。

youdao

Remember I said that photography and art photography had largely taken the place of portraiture, to the extent that some critics had declared the genre of portraiture to be dead.

记得我说过摄影和艺术摄影在很大程度上取代了肖像画，以至于一些评论家宣称肖像画这一流派已经死亡。

youdao

But now that he's dead,I got to be the captain.

VOA: standard.other

Well, similarly then, I put it to you, there's no mystery about what it's like to be dead.

同样的，放到人身上，死亡的感觉,并没有什么神秘可言。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

From which it follows, the argument goes, that I don't really believe I'll ever be dead.

接下来，这个论点就变成，我不能够相信自己的死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The author whose previous works include titles such as "Bad as I Wanna Be" and "I Should Be Dead by Now" chose a different audience this time.

WSJ: The Worm Turns: Rodman writes book for children

One of the men, Nicki Biagioni, tells the Sun: "I should be dead, but I stayed in bed".

BBC: Papers

Mlilwana says he has received death threats in prison: "I expect any day I will be dead, but before I die I will make sure everything is known, " he told the newspaper.

BBC: News | Africa | 'Police helped South African car-jacker'