[bpizzi]

Those are beliefs from the past. Given time it will change. What human kind is biologically hardwired for is personal survival ability, not leaving the world for youngsters as soon as possible, and those two precepts are mutually exclusive.

[flyinglizard]

Humans have individually weak survival instincts, which is why soldiers were running into machine gun fire on the beaches of Normandy (or why others ride motorcycles). Some of that is surely the denial of our own mortality.

Humans excel at surviving as a group, which is a very different - sometimes contrasting - thing.