Cuộc sống sau khi chết - Life after death

A: What are you going to do about your death?

B: Well, mostly I’ll try to avoid it

A: I mean, are you going to get buried or cremated?

B: My wife and I will be cremated

A: Are you going to be cremated next to each other?

B: Oh, no. Our ashes will be shaken into the ocean

A: You’re not going to be buried?

B: A coffin costs too much and takes up too much space

A: Yes, but it will be in a cemetery where your children can visit

B: Children seldom visit their parents in a cemetery

A: That’s true. A cemetery is for dead people, not living people

B: We figure our kids can visit us whenever they go to the beach

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Từ vựng - Vocabulary

Cái chết = Death

Chủ yếu = mostly

Tránh = To avoid

Ý tôi là = I mean

Chôn = To bury

Hỏa táng = To cremate

Bên cạnh nhau = Next to each other

Tro cốt = Ash

Biển = Sea

Đại dương = Ocean

Rải = To scatter

Quan tài = Coffin

Chiếm chỗ quá nhiều = Take up  too much space

Nghĩa trang = Cemetery

Thăm = To visit

Hiếm khi = Seldom

Dead people = Người chết

Living people = Người đang sống

Nghĩ rằng = Figure that / Think that