I don't think it very relevant whether the death comes about because you withdraw life support, like a ventilator, or because you actually decide to end that child's life by giving the child a lethal injection.

我觉得这也与造成死亡的原因无关,无论是通过撤走维持生命的仪器，比如呼吸机，还是通过药物注射,结束孩子的生命。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Imagine a body towards the end of life,on life support machinery.

想象一下身体濒死，靠着维持生命的机械存活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This idea that no law can violate our right to life, liberty, and property would seem to support the idea of a government so limited that it would gladden the heart of the libertarian after all.

任何法律都不能侵犯生命自由和财产权的观点,似乎是支持“有限政府“这一观点的,这点无疑很讨自由主义者欢心。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So basically, the whole society was spending all of the time raising enough food just to support life and there was only 5% left over and that ended up being used in ways like this.

基本上,整个社会全部时间都被用于积累足量食物,这仅是为了维持生计,只剩下5%的时间,被用来建造金字塔,为法老服务

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So suppose,gruesome as it was,this weekend I'm in some horrible accident and my torso gets destroyed and they keep my brain on life support, oxygenating it just long enough to do some radical surgery into some spare torsos.

来做个可怕的假设，我在周末惨遭事故,肉体完全损坏，只剩大脑靠系统维持生命，持续补氧到能被高超手术植入另外的身体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选