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。

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。

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。

And a variety of medical origin are not the same medicine, good cure incurable, difficult disease and a variety of medical disease difficult to cure terminal illness is difficult.

与各种医学都不相同的本源医学，善于治愈绝症，疑难病和各种医学难以治愈的绝症难病。

There is clearly a growing demand in this country for a well regulated, legal right for people with terminal illness, who are mentally competent, to end their life if they choose to.

很明显，在英国这样的需求正在增长，身患绝症而心智健全的人们，需要有良好监管的合法权利，可以根据自己的选择结束生命。

His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."

他的二年级老师写到：“泰蒂是很优秀的学生，很受同学们喜爱。”但他母亲得了绝症，他为此而担忧，家里的生活一定很艰苦。

Abbey Ahern, 34, who lives in Oklahoma, was devastated when she was told at her 19-week scan that her daughter had the terminal illness anencephaly which meant she would not live beyond a few hours.

居住在美国俄克拉荷马州、今年34岁的艾比·阿埃伦在怀孕19周的时候，在被告知腹中的女儿被诊断出患有先天无脑畸形绝症、意味着仅能存活几个小时的时候，她彻底崩溃了。

The illness is usually terminal.

这种病通常为不治之症。

Studies of those who sought out Dr Kevorkian, however, suggest that though many had a worsening illness, cancer perhaps or a neurological disease, it was not usually terminal.

然而对那些找凯沃尔·吉安医生寻求帮助的人进行了研究后显示，尽管很多人患有日益恶化的疾病，癌症或是神经疾患，但通常都不是晚期的。

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。

My dream is to be a scientist because I like challenging tasks and would really want to research and discover new solutions that could cure many illness that are currently terminal.

我的梦想是成为一个科学家，因为我喜欢挑战性的工作，很想研究和发现新的解决方案，可以治疗多种疾病，目前终端。

To assess the effects of supportive interventions that aim to improve the psychological and physical health of informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of their illness.

想要评估目标在于改善疾病末期病患非正式照护者心理与生理健康之支持性干预的效果。