Sometimes it's people who sit at home doing nothing that aren't valuing life. Sometimes we don't really start to value our lives until they they are taken to the edge, so to speak. From the perspective of being in extremis.
Arguably, life is nothing but a succession of moments. Always "right here, right now". If we don't get the most out of our moments, if we don't live them to the fullest, then perhaps we miss out on life.
Maybe that's something that "Mad" Mike Hughes understood that many other people don't. I most emphatically don't want to dismiss it as stupid.
From my experience...
Some people are ignorant - most are. I would say 75% or more (that's my opinion), and therefore the decisions some make in life, are based on anything but accurate knowledge. Life becomes a matter of feeling one's way through.
Thrill seeking adds some excitement to their meaningless everyday routine.
Then there are the not so ignorant who just feel they are their own god, who live their life how they please, and no one tells them what to do, or how to live. In other words, there are no rules - The Aleister Crowley motto.
This is quickly becoming the norm in societies... if it's not there already.
To them, life could end tomorrow... So what.
This is because most of mankind do not know, and have not found the real purpose and meaning in life.
Does life have a purpose? How can we find it?
I think if we can get accurate answers to these questions, our lives would have a more positive direction.
I am sure a lot of cops wish they could spend more time with their son, or daughter, than have to put on a uniform, and holster a weapon, and risk their life daily. However, some feel that gives their life meaning... to "Go get the bad guys! Protect society!". It's a sense of duty, but what else is there, if one does not see the real purpose, and meaning to life.
If Mike knew it, he wouldn't have died in a rocket.