I've thought a lot about suicide and near death experiences

But WHY do you think that so many people are desperate to fabricate some kind of meaning out of whole cloth? If life itself is enough of a 'blast' without having to concoct some sort of bizarre narcissistic fantasy regarding the ultimate significance of their existence, then why do the lives of the majority of the world's population revolve around these myths? It's not as if people don't have access to the education required to dispassionately reject these myths...but it seems that people feel that they need them.