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Cryonicists view death not as a singular event, but as a process—one that starts when the heart stops beating and ends later at a point called “the information-theoretic criterion for death”—let’s call it “info death”—when the brain has become so damaged that no amount of present or future technology could restore it to its original state or have any way to retrieve its information.
冷冻专家们认为死亡不是一个单一事件而是一个过程：①心脏停跳②死亡的理论标准信号，大脑受损程度以现在和未来技术都无法修复到原状态或找回大脑里的信息。

Here’s an interesting way to think about it: Imagine a patient arriving in an ambulance to Hospital A, a typical modern hospital. The patient’s heart stopped 15 minutes before the EMTs arrived and he is immediately pronounced dead at the hospital. What if, though, the doctors at Hospital A learned that Hospital B across the street had developed a radical new technology that could revive a patient anytime within 60 minutes after cardiac arrest with no long-term damage? What would the people at Hospital A do?
你也可以这样想：救护车送一个病人到一家标准现代医院A，病人在救护员到达之前15分钟心脏停跳，他当即。假如A医院的医生知道街对面的B医院发展了个新技术，人心脏骤停60分钟内可救活并对大脑长期无损，A医院的里人们会怎么做。

Of course, they would rush the patient across the street to Hospital B to save him. If Hospital B did save the patient, then by definition the patient wouldn’t actually have been dead in Hospital A, just pronounced dead because Hospital A viewed him as entirely and without exception doomed.
当然，他们会把病人推到街对面的B医院救活他。如果B医院救活了病人，那么病人就不会死在A医院，在A医院被定死亡是因为A医院认为他完全地无意外地是必死的。

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criterion
n. （批评判断的）标准；准则；规范；准据

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by definition
按照定义；当然地；明显地

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