To suffer so greatly that one wishes for death but cannot achieve it; to be unable to find release through death; to be in such agony that one longs for death, yet death does not come.
他长期遭受病痛折磨，常常感到求死不得，生活对他而言已是无尽的煎熬。
He has long suffered from illness, often feeling that he wishes for death but cannot achieve it; life, for him, has become an endless torment.
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