You know what the greatest ability the human brain is capable of? Self reflection, and self reflection is also its greatest weakness. You ever notice social media's main manipulative means manifests as massaging your mammalian instincts? For something to be engaging there has to be relevance to human existence in some way. To people who have had close calls with death, witnessing that may have more visceral impact to someone who has never stared death in the face and lived to tell about it. Take someone like 50 cent for instance. Would he be the person he is now if he didn't take 9 bullets and lived through it, hell to the fuck no. Each one of those bullets was a crash course in life and purged the nigger out of him. He made millions as a result. You will never feel more alive than if you face your own mortality, those that do die in peace.