The experience had a deep meaning for me, as only those who have known stark terror and conquered it can appreciate. In death there is peace. There is terror only in the fear of death, as Roosevelt knew when he said, "All we have to fear is fear itself." Because I had experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that the fear of it can produce, the will to live somehow grew in intensity.
Choose the option that best explains the expression 'deep meaning in the extract.

Options

A. The experience left a deep scar in the narrator's life.
B. The narrator drowned at the deep end of the pool.
C. The narrator learnt a life lesson through that experience.
D. The experience was still painful in the memory of the narrator.