We continue to share with our remotest ancestors the most tangled and evasive attitudes about death, despite the great distance we have come in understanding some of the profound aspects of biology.

虽然在了解一些深奥的生物学知识方面我们取得了长足的进步，但对于死亡，我们仍然抱着和最遥远的祖先们相同的最为复杂和难以捉摸的态度。