What we either have to do is deny the claims I'm made about the nature of death, or else go on to ask-- supposing they are true-- ? how should we live in light of them?

我们要做的是,否认我对死亡的本质的说法，或者继续问-,假设它们是真的-,鉴于此，我们应该怎样生活？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But we have not yet been able to find a claim,an interpretation, which is true,interesting,fairly special about death, as opposed to trivially true about everything, and giving us some relatively interesting insight into the nature of death.

但还是没有找到一种，真实，有趣并且是死亡独有的，相对于对所有事物的普遍事实来说，并且能给我们关于死亡本质有趣见地的诠释。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选