He did not wish to die the agonizing death of his mother and brother.
他不希望像他母亲和他兄弟那样痛苦地死去。
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It's one that I suppose we could continue to entertain as a kind of skepticism about this way of understanding the compulsion to repeat as somehow necessarily entailing a theory of the deathwish.