You can conceptually understand death but you do not know it because you don’t experience it’s ‘ground rush’.
So I disagree.
Neither do people on their death beds.
> because you don’t experience it’s ‘ground rush’.
Death isn’t a spectrum. By that logic, someone who almost died because of a car accident has better insights than someone in a hospice withering over months or years. A person who began pondering their own mortality a week ago because they got terminally ill doesn’t have more valid insights on life and death than a moderately healthy person who has been thinking about the subject every day for two decades.
Try climbing. Top ropes, sport and traditional. All the same things but with wholly different consequences. The experience is entirely different.
The person who had a near death experience versus dying is on a spectrum. One being acute, the other being chronic. Both would have different views.
No, I am not. You keep making wrong assumptions about me and disagreeing on the surface while (seemingly) agreeing where it matters.
> Both would have different views.
Yes, exactly. Thus the views of the person on their death bed aren’t more universally valid. That’s the whole point I’m making.