Sometimes, when he's about to die, he doesn't notice, too caught up in the science or the adrenaline or the fact that he has no time to spare to notice trifling details like certain death. Other times, he gets the deluxe treatment, his life flashing before his eyes, the best and worst moments of his life in chronological order. It helps, when he's fighting for his life, to have a reminder of why he's doing it, why he's struggling to draw another breath when it would be so much easier to just give up. Because while not all of his life was great (that's the understatement of the century, notwithstanding some of the bad science he's seen and some of the more creatively written mission reports) there are some moments, rare, precious jewels of moments, so perfect he couldn't remember them when he really needs them if it weren't for the life-flashing-before-his-eyes thing, that make it all worth it, that would make a whole hell of a lot worse things worth it. Not that he wants to test that theory.
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