来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第24集 第24集》

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  but you've got some degenerative disease
  但你得了某种退行性疾病
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  that's going to make things worse and worse.
  生活越来越差
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  Here's the period in which it's getting worse.
  这段生活越来越差
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  And then after a while,
  过了一段时间
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  your existence is going to be worse than nothing.
  你的生活差到生不如死
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  Here, we can at least broach the question in an intelligible way.
  现在 我们至少有理由问
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  Might suicide make sense?
  自杀是合理的吗
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  Suppose this is the point where the downturn begins.
  假设生活质量在这时开始下降
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  Should you kill yourself at that stage?
  你应该在这时自杀吗
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  No. Because, after all,
  不 因为不管怎么说
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  even though there's a downturn, things are getting worse,
  即使生活从这里开始变坏
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  there's still going to be another period of life,
  但这段时间仍然是