Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good. Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.
Star Trek was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And Twilight Zone is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from Being Human sit down and have marathons to get our little Twilight Zone fix.