I experienced an high speed car accident that could have killed me and lost a brother (not same event) when I was younger (like 13-14 years ago).
Both events made me think about life and death.
I actually think about life and death a lot since these events.
Now I know much more about life and death thanks to
http://www.truthcontest.com/I know I didn't really live so far.
Life is more than we think : It is actually everything that we don't think.
Death is less than we think...
We are more than our physical bodies including minds, and our spiritual part can not die or life would have no sense.
Death is still scary and painfull... it is still loosing this body and everything that goes with it.
Death happens to everyone, even young people... so it should motivate everyone to actually live : fully experience life through the 5 senses that this body is supporting.
To fully experience life through our 5 life senses, our minds must open itself completely.
The mind is scared to open itself, because the result is like death from the mind perspective : your mind is not "alive" anymore when you don't need it when it is fully opened.
So almost everyone is afraid to live, because people don't understand they are more of their minds.
People (minds) are afraid of the silence and solitude and do everything to fight silence and solitude.
The truth is once the mind is silenced and let your spirit alone with life, you experience EVERYTHING... so you are not really alone, you are with life itself (what religions call God).
People got it wrong about not thinking, they think you become a zombie...
That is the opposite : if you think non-stop about useless stuff like "what this girl thinks about me" "what will happen tomorrow" "I should smoke/drink/play... something"... then you miss the present moment (life) that is given to you.
If you only think when you need to, your mind will become much stronger, FOCUSED and you will remember things you think much better... and recieve more life the rest of the time.
Almost everything I just said is explained (in a more complete and simple way) in The Truth Contest on The Present and The Present (with religion)... it can show you the way to true life too, JUST CHECK IT FOR YOURSELF (if you have any questions pm me, I'd be glad to answer).