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by nostromoa 4252 days ago
The deep insight is nearly dying doesn't necessarily lead to deep insights and perhaps one really has to 'die' and come back to get deep insights and maybe even that doesn't result in deep insights. The other deep insight is, "I didn't die this time and that's ok with me." Deep insight may seem mundane because its just living through proving the obvious things you already knew...might be a third insight. For me dying quickly anesthetized looked a lot better than dying slowly from cancer or in a car crash burning to death or a litany of other possibilities which I assumed was the case before but now I really believe.