"Nie powinieneś myśleć o śmierci."
Translation:You should not think about death.
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I still wonder what its name is supposed to mean, but the more I go through it, I think it deals with abstract concepts. Still, it indeed is sinister, given all the other sentences...
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Bad advice. By reflecting on death, we can better appreciate our lives and make wiser decisions.
Słoń is masculine, "Nie myśl o różowym słoniu". Or plural: "Nie myśl o różowych słoniach".
Myśleć is non-reflexive, so the unstressed reflexive pronoun się is misplaced here. You can use the stressed dative-case reflexive pronoun sobie after the subject (ludzie), but that's more of a causal speech filler which doesn't make a lot of difference semantically.
Ludzi is accusative/genitive, but since it's the subject here, it needs to be in the nominative case, which is ludzie.
Myśleć o takes locative, so śmierć should become śmierci.
All in all: Niech ludzie myślą o śmierci.
OK. But, applying the same construct to the original answer, "You should not to think about death" sounds odd to me. I trust your judgment.
