I think that Torajans socially recognize and culturally express what many of us feel to be true of the biomedical definition of death, and that is that our relationships with other humans, their impact on our social reality, doesn't cease with the termination of the physical processes of the body, as the relationship between the living and the dead is transformed but not ended.
我认为托拉雅人在社会上认同了 并在文化上表达了 大多数人感知的真理， 尽管生物医学所定义的死亡 被普遍接受。 这种真理就是我们与其他人类之间的关联， 这种关系对社会现实的影响， 并不会随着 身体物理性的死亡而终止， 活着的人和死亡的人之间的关系 有一段过渡期 是被改变而不是被结束。