来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第16集 第16集》

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  But it's not impossible.
  但死亡其实是可以联合完成
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  You could have, for example, some sort of suicide pact.
  你可以举出集体自杀的例子
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  There have been cases, gruesome as they may be,
  这种恐怖的例子的确存在
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  in which entire groups of people drink poison together
  某组织成员一起服毒自尽
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  so as to die not alone,
  与其孤独死去
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  but die together, die as part of jointly dying, dying as a group.
  不如步调一致 协作死亡
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  Or you could have, once told that this sort of thing happens,
  或者你也许听过这种事件
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  a couple in love who together jump off the cliff,
  一对情侣跳崖殉情
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  committing suicide together,
  共赴黄泉
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  dying not alone but with each other as part of a joint undertaking.
  通过联合协作而非孤独的方式结果彼此
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  It certainly seems possible. I take it cases like this actually do occur.
  那当然可能 这些都是真实案例
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  So if somebody comes along and says
  所以如果有人说