But an expert in emergency medicine says a person cannot be worse than dead.

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And then my father who has passed, who is dead I should say, and profound in his spirituality. A very soft-spoken person.

然后是我的爸爸，虽然他已经去世了，一致和深刻的精神世界，他是个很斯文的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Every time I try to picture myself being dead, I smuggle myself back in, conscious and existing as a person, hence, not dead as a person.

每次我想象自己的死亡时，就会将自己带入，有意识作为人而存在的状态，所以也就不再处于死亡了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That is, you're dead as a person. Previously, we distinguished between the death of my body and my death as a person; let's focus on my death as a person.

这指的是你作为个人的死亡,之前我们已区别了肉体和个人的死亡;,现在我们将重点放在个人的死亡上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选