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。