Originally Posted by Socks

Don't 4 and 5 conflict? This reminded me of something I once heard or read.. Basically went like this:

Most people walk through life being careful to avoid injury and to gracefully age into their elder years, then hopefully die painlessly in their sleep one night due to natural causes.

A special few run as fast as they can through life, doing as much as they can on the way, and hope to die having completely used up all they could of their body and mind, cut bruised scraped and bloody. Aging gracefully is the most uninteresting and painful way they could die! They'd prefer to die because their parachute didn't open, or they lost a grip on the mountain they were climbing or something.