Sailing into an offshore storm with a tiny boat on purpose

The problem that I have observed is that people prone to finding themselves in those situations are often unencumbered by the thought process. Stupid is as stupid does.

 

I think the OP is having you on.
(S)he's gone.

 

Or never was quite "here".

 

I guess you don't enjoy the thrill of adventure.

 

Not at all, adventure is good, when tempered by prudence, throwing caution to the wind, in pursuit of a thrill, is not much different to Russian roulette.

 

We all get to die, a few of us really live though.

 

This is largely a matter of individual personality and preferences, but sensation seeking behaviour is a minority pre-occupation, and then mainly with those suffused by the feeling of invincibility, that accompanies youth.

 

Theoretical physicist, mathematician, tireless traveler, intrepid navigator, avid reader of Wikipedia, researcher, designer, builder ... and now, philosopher.
Amazing.

 

Ease up on Wikipedia, TANSL, I rather like it !

 

I like it too and I use it with some frequency. The problem is to read something in Wikipedia, and, since you do not have enough base, to interpret it badly but to believe that, with that background, you are already qualified to have a technical conversation. I'm not going against Wikipedia, which is in many ways impressive, although it's not the Bible, I go against those who do not know how to use it properly.

 

We mellow with age. Sometimes because of the responsibilities we take on.

 

Something, something, Darwin Awards....
I don't think the op outright wants to die, but the idea sounds stupid like the internet challenges of eating Tide Pods, snorting condoms up your nose and out your mouth or the one of pouring boiling water over yourself, or better yet drinking it through a straw.
It sounds like what suicide survivors say when they don't die after jumping off tall bridges, the instant they let go they realize what a horrendous mistake they've made.

 

One of the most tragic stories I have heard, was of a couple who were travelling to the funeral of a base-jumper friend, who had died in a leap. They decided to do a base-jump themselves, en route. Both died. If that doesn't sound like a waste of life, I don't know what is.

 

That is mostly that the adrenaline released by the fear of death has finally engaged the tuned-over-millions-of-years-for-survival lower brain into overriding the addled, oversizes, conscious mind.

 

Not at all. In situations when a small mistake means death, we either are super-conscious an hyper-alert, or die. It is peaceful for some people not to have to worry about anything else than survival.