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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His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."

他的二年级老师写到：“泰蒂是很优秀的学生，很受同学们喜爱。”但他母亲得了绝症，他为此而担忧，家里的生活一定很艰苦。

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Abbey Ahern, 34, who lives in Oklahoma, was devastated when she was told at her 19-week scan that her daughter had the terminal illness anencephaly which meant she would not live beyond a few hours.

居住在美国俄克拉荷马州、今年34岁的艾比·阿埃伦在怀孕19周的时候，在被告知腹中的女儿被诊断出患有先天无脑畸形绝症、意味着仅能存活几个小时的时候，她彻底崩溃了。

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We then have to get down to facts about cases, try to describe the instance, perhaps somebody who's in the terminal stages of some illness where they're in a great deal of pain.

然后我们要区分各种情况，尝试描述某个特定的例子，也许某人在某种疾病的晚期,他们在承受巨大的痛苦。

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That might include if he or she is ever in pain or has a terminal illness.

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Then she asked a series of questions, targeting issues that tend to arise in patients with terminal illness.

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U. because of terminal illness is for most people a kind of failure.

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