After you have assumed you are going to die in the hospital a few times you deve

After you have assumed you are going to die in the hospital a few times you develop this mental bias that while you prefer to live, the feeling of fearing death that is beyond your control is worse than the fear of death itself. So you no longer fear death as much as experience life.

Our safety in modernity has largely replaced our near constant fear of death.

Once you no longer fear death your choices in life are much clearer, as are your wants from life.

But something is lost in our comfort.