“Life is near-death experience.”
As quoted in de Botton's School of Life lecture, 'On Pessimism' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw1oLtuJOXQ, <br class="br">[transcript] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BcpQlEBiGT6sYmMY8wz0F1rqoWjfC6J-40vhHQZFxxY/edit?pli=1