我正一个人坐在办公室里聚精会神地为某天晚上即将在一所大学进行学术演讲作准备,突然,电话铃响了起来,一位我从没有见过的女士在电话中作了自我介绍,她说她是一个7岁孩子的母亲,她就要死了。她说为她治疗的专家认为,把她即将来临的死亡拿来与她年幼的儿子讨论可能会给他的心灵带来创伤,但不知为什么,她并不这样认为。 I was alone in my office, preparing myself for an academic speech at a university one night, and suddenly the phone rang, a woman I’d never met introduced myself on the phone, She said she was the mother of a seven-year-old and she was going to die. She said the experts she treated believed that bringing her impending death to discussion with her young son could hurt his soul, but she did not think so for some reason.