Regarding #2, there is a cliffhanger episode of Farscape where Ka D’Argo makes this point quite eloquently (though of course, D’Argo and Crighton end up not dying). Sadly, both Youtube and IMDB have let me down here, so I can’t provide a verbatim quote, but it was something to effect of “Fear accompanies the possibility of death; calm comes with its certainty.”
Regarding #2, there is a cliffhanger episode of Farscape where Ka D’Argo makes this point quite eloquently (though of course, D’Argo and Crighton end up not dying). Sadly, both Youtube and IMDB have let me down here, so I can’t provide a verbatim quote, but it was something to effect of “Fear accompanies the possibility of death; calm comes with its certainty.”