Our answers are biased due to the lack of personal and direct experience in the other field you cited. How could you ever get a reliable answer on this subject from living beings at least in your formulation of the question ?

Go for living. When you're dead, your options are rather limited.

Living is only beautiful because death promises to end it. We can't understand the living because they are dynamic; they always change. In death we become static, and therefor complete.