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

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Why not then say,similarly,even though my body's still alive, nothing wrong about removing the heart if the person is dead.

这样为什么不能说，即使肉体依然生存，但是个人已经死亡时摘除心脏是可以的。

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So says to this person, "Isn't it strange you have this dead-end job when you're twice as smart as your boss?

狗跟这个人说，”你不觉得很奇怪吗，你做这份没出头之日的工作,你的才智比你上司高一倍？

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So perhaps in the relevant sense, the person can still engage in P-functioning, so they're not dead. Good enough.

所以也许在相对的条件下，这个人还有人格功能性，他们还没有死，很好。

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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。

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Well,sometimes in response to this thought,people respond by saying, Look,death isn't bad for the person who's dead.

有时候人们对这个想法的反应是，死亡不是对死者不好。

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Maybe my body--I'm imagining my body dead, but I'm not imagining myself, the person, dead.

也许我能想像自己肉体的死亡，但不能想想自己作为个人的死亡。

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How do we explain the fact that the person who's conducting the seance knows things about, your history that only your dead uncle would know?"

我们怎么解释通灵的那个人,好像真的知道,只有你死去的叔叔才知道的故事

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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。

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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。

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If you will P-function again, if you have been P-functioning in the past and you will be P-functioning again in the future, P-functioning for person functioning, you will be P-functioning again in the future, then you're not dead.

只要你还可能再度拥有人格功能性，以前有过人格功能性,以后也会有人格功能性，人格功能性就是作为人的各种功能，你将来能够再次拥有人格功能性，你就没有死。

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And one of the things that's striking is, how similar the experience is from person to person and from culture to culture-- that they've got some notion, as they were dead on the operating table, of leaving their body.

而其中最振奋的就是,不管一个人的,生活经验及文化背景,有多相似,他们都能感受到,当他们在手术台上死去,身体已经逝去

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Is there something immoral about removing the organs during Phase D when the person is dead and the only thing that's still alive is the body?

在D阶段人已死亡只有肉体存活时,摘除器官是否不道德？

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