Why do we look at death as a bad thing?

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-Why do we view at death as something bad?

Do we? For the most part, we seem to show concern for death in a very limited set of circumstances.

- we may feel a sense of sadness at the passing of someone we never personally knew, but admired. Like a movie star or musician.

- we may feel a sense of sorrow when we hear about a particularly "senseless" death, such as a depressed man who kills his family and then himself. Or a person who dies from a lack of basic care. Depending on the circumstances, we may also feel outrage on behalf of the dead or sympathy for their loved ones.

- we may feel a very deep emotional or mental pain at the death of someone very close to us, be it a family member, a significant other, a very close friend, or a beloved pet.

And we probably fear dying because it means that's the end, and we probably had some stuff that we would liked to have gotten done if we'd had just one more hour, or day, or week, etc. Survival is probably very deeply ingrained in our psyche because the organism that wants most badly to survive is more likely to do so and to pass along its genes.

But in general we don't think about death anywhere near as much as we would if we truly thought it was something bad. Around 150,000 people and perhaps more than 160 million animals die every day on this planet. How many of those do each of us mourn? How many of those force us to contemplate the good/bad of death?