I find this varies considerably from near-death experience to near-death experience. For example, having a wandering loonie break down the door of my game store to look for women was so funny the entire concussion and pools of blood thing was a minor footnote. Being sucked out into the Atlantic by an undertow was deeply irritating. Having a snowba[n]k collapse on me was alarming because of the claustrophobia issue. The car wreck was over almost before I had time to realise what was happening.

Hell, Chuck Yeager could do it in his sleep while on fire, I'm sure.

I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love.