[It's...not explicitly what he's here for, but you know what, he is all for comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable, as it were.]

I've come close to dying several times in my life; each time, there's always been too much to experience for me to content myself with lying down and giving up.

I won't go so far as to say all life is to be cherished or valued by everyone, but if you don't see your own as worthy of celebration, then what's the point?