Those who come closest to death are often the future of the earth

If you had asked me about this when I was 10 or 12 I wouldn't have known this was true. But, by age 25 I could have told you this.

Why is this true?

Because most people go through life sleep walking and never having a real opinion about anything of any real meaning until their life is threatened in some way from within or without. Then they are disturbed by this near death experience and are forced by life to have "Critical Thinking" in order to stay alive another moment, another hour.

And often these people who have faced illness, disease, suicide or even people trying to kill them are the ones who save us all.