Now when I first started asking what happens when we die, the grown-ups around me at the time answered with a typical English mix of awkwardness and half-hearted Christianity, and the phrase I heard most often was that granddad was now "up there looking down on us," and if I should die too, which wouldn't happen of course, then I too would go up there, which made death sound a lot like
私がたずねるようになると 周りの大人は 気まずそうに キリスト教的な答えを返しました 典型的なイギリス人の答えです 一番よく耳にしたセリフは おじいちゃんが 「天国から見守ってくれる」 ― そして万が一 私が死んだ時にも 天国に昇っていくというのです これでは まるで死が