That story is one of several that make up "How We Die", a book Dr Nuland wrote in 1993, after a lifetime of watching the effects of terminal illness.

这是努兰博士写于1993年的《死亡之脸》一书中的故事之一。这本书由几个故事组成，它是努兰博士用其一生的时间观察绝症病人的种种后果之后写成的。

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The only real "terminal illness" is simply being human. And being human is not "terminal" at all, because death is simply transition to another level of being.

唯一的“终结病”就是如何简单地做人，而做人也绝非“终结”，因为死亡只是另一种存在层次的转变。

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It is widely accepted that patients and people with potential to get terminal illness should adopt a regular daily dose of laughter in order to boost internal healing processes.

患者和有可能感染不治之症的人群应该每天笑一笑，以此来促使内部修复激素的分泌。

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We then have to get down to facts about cases, try to describe the instance, perhaps somebody who's in the terminal stages of some illness where they're in a great deal of pain.

然后我们要区分各种情况，尝试描述某个特定的例子，也许某人在某种疾病的晚期,他们在承受巨大的痛苦。

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That might include if he or she is ever in pain or has a terminal illness.

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Then she asked a series of questions, targeting issues that tend to arise in patients with terminal illness.

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U. because of terminal illness is for most people a kind of failure.

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