If God Told You To Jump Off the Brooklyn Bridge...Would You Do It?

So, I was watching Oprah the other day and there was this guy on who had a near death experience. This experience inspired him to make a list of 100 adventurous things he wanted to do before he died...again. One of them, apparently, was to be on Oprah. (Personally, I think being a guest on Oprah is kinda pushing the envelope as to what most would deem adventurous, but that's neither here nor there). There was also this chick on the show who wanted to conquer her fear of heights...by bungee jumping, among others.

You hear about this a lot; people dying and coming back and deciding to "live for the moment", which suddenly includes doing things you didn't consider doing when you had yet to know what it was like to die. (wow, try saying THAT ten times fast!)

Here's what I don't get about the near death folks. It's great that you died and came back and all, but what in the hell (or heaven, as the case may be) do you see on the other side that makes you want to, all of a sudden, do things in THIS life that INCREASES your chances of going back AGAIN? I mean if it wasn't that bad to begin with, why didn't you just stick around?

You know what this tells me about dying? Everybody just needs to chill out. It can't be all THAT bad.

Just look at how many people are cool with going back.