死亡是健康的 | 《健康之道》连载（16）

摘译自《健康之道》1984年3月13日

口述。第三章——你已经有标题了。

（珍昨天下午把标题给了我：“铤而走险的人，挑战死亡的人，以及健康。”）

乍一想，人们好像无疑是热爱生命而惧怕死亡的——他们寻求快乐而避免痛苦。

然而，情况并不总是如此。有些人必须感到自己处于死亡的边缘，才能充分欣赏生命的品质。有些人除非同时面对死亡的威胁或剧烈的疼痛，否则无法欣赏或享受生命的满足感、幸福的满足感。

还有一些人坚信追求快乐必然导致痛苦，还有一些人，对他们来说，痛本身就是快乐。也有一些人的信念使他们在健康状态时感觉很不爽——对这些人而言，健康不佳会带来一种安全感。

健康有多得数不清的阶段，从高度的、十足的、精力充沛的状态到逐渐衰弱的嗜睡及不适。在这句话里，划掉“逐渐衰弱的”。事实上，与健康状态相关的阶段几乎是无穷无尽的。通过对其中每个阶段进行编号和定义，你们可以发明一种完全不同的看待人类健康的方法。当然，你们的社会反而选择了识别及定义所有那些对健康不利的阶段——那些因为健康或多或少缺失而被识别出来的阶段。

所以，在本书中，我们将致力于促进健康的方法，而有意避免为各种身体的不适命名。

在我们开始之前应该注明，死亡本身是你们人类及所有其他物种的解脱——一个解救者。死亡本身并不消极，却是另一种积极存在的开始。可以说，它修剪了地球，以使万物都有时间和空间，使万物都有能量和食物。由于死亡，生命才成为可能，所以生与死这两种看似相反的特质，只不过是同一个现象的不同版本。

如果死亡在你们的星球上消失，哪怕只有一小时，所有的生命很快就会受到威胁。而如果所有可能的生命突然同时出现，那么毫无疑问，所有的生命都会被消灭。那么，我们必须承认，死亡的确是生命的一部分——甚至我们必须说，死亡是健康的。

Dictation. Chapter 3 — you have the heading. 

(Jane gave it to me yesterday afternoon: "Daredevils, Death-Defiers, and Health.") 

At first thought, it certainly seems as if people love life and fear death — that they seek pleasure and avoid pain. 

Yet this is not always the case. There are people who must feel themselves to be at the brink of death before they can fully appreciate the quality of life. There are people who cannot appreciate or enjoy the satisfaction of life or of happiness unless faced simultaneously with the threat of death or intense pain. 

There are other people who firmly believe that the pursuit of pleasure must lead to pain, and there are also others for whom pain itself is pleasure. There are also individuals whose beliefs cause them to feel very uncomfortable when they are in a state of health — and for these individuals poor health brings a sense of security and safety. 

There are innumerable stages of health, from high, sheer, energetic exuberance to dwindling lethargy and discomfort. In that sentence, scratch out "dwindling." There are, in fact, an almost infinite number of stages connected with the state of health. You could invent a completely different way of regarding human health by numbering and defining each of those stages. Instead, of course, your society has chosen to recognize and define all of those stages that are detrimental to health — stages that are recognizable because of health's absence to one degree or another. 

In this book, therefore, we will devote ourselves to ways of promoting health, and we will purposely avoid the specific naming of dis-eases.

It should be noted before we begin that death itself is the delivery — a deliverer — of your species and all others. It is not negative in itself, but instead is the beginning of a different kind of positive existence. It prunes the planet, so to speak, so that there is a room and time for all, energy and food for all. Because of death, life is possible, so these two seemingly opposite qualities are simply different versions of the same phenomena. 

If death disappeared on your planet even an hour all of life would soon be threatened. And if all life possible suddenly emerged at once, then most surely all would be annihilated. We must admit, then, that death is indeed a part of life — and even more, we must say that death is healthy. 

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