When the death of a loved one is sudden or unexpected, with lit-tle time to prepare, it is not infrequent for mourners to believe the dead person is still alive.

当至爱的人死得突然或者死于意外时，因为没时间准备，所以对于哀悼者来说，相信死去的人仍然活着是很常见的。

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And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

他们不可挨近死尸沾染自己，只可为父亲，母亲，儿子，女儿，弟兄，和未嫁人的姊妹沾染自己。

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By the time [he or she] wakes up, the patient may have been dead for a while, but if you have a warning sign and can alert another person in your house, that can be lifesaving.

等到他或她醒来，病人可能已经死了有一会儿了。但是如果你能发现预警信号并让你屋里的另一个人保持警醒，那才能拯救生命。

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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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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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In her petition, Pinki Virani said that Ms Shanbaug had been in a "persistent vegetative state" for 37 years and was "virtually a dead person".

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The cut-off point for resuscitation - when a person is pronounced dead - is when all eight have been checked and there are still no signs of life.

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