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Is Brain Death a Real Death？ Suppose a man has a car accident. He is hurt badly and is unconscious (失去知觉的) ;that is, he can't think, speak, or hear. His family takes him to the hospital. The doctors tell the family that his brain is dead. A machine can make him breathe.
Now the patient’s family must answer some difficult questions. Should they think he is dead？ Should they ask the doctors to use the machine to make him breathe？ Sometimes machines can make an unconscious person breathe for years. However, if his brain is dead, he will never think, speak, or hear again. Then, should his family ask the doctors not to use the machine and let him die？
Someone who is unconscious can’t say he wants to die. Can his family say this for him？ Some people think this is a good idea. Some think otherwise.
Many people are hurt when machines keep a person alive. The unconscious person doesn’t know this. Machines only make the family and friends hurt longer.
Someone who is hurt badly and is unconscious ______ pain.
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But the cult of the authentic and the personal, "doing our own thing", has spelt the death of formal speech, writing, poetry and music. While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s, even the most well regarded writing since then has sought to capture spoken English on the page. Equally, in poetry, the highly personal, performative gene is the only form. that could claim real liveliness, in both oral and written English, talking is triumphing over speaking, spontaneity over craft.
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Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers. Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms—he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful. We now take our English "on paper plates instead of china". A shame, perhaps, but probably an inevitable one.
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