It absolutely is, in every manifestation, which is why we keep its implements out of the hands of anyone who might use them on themselves or others in all but the most horrific circumstances.
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This is certainly not true of most interesting elderly people, nor is it the case that there aren't plenty of young people happy to share especially stupid platitudes about death to look mid-tier wise at dinner parties.
Ask anyone of any age how many of the items that fall into the category "things worse than death" are just sort of fine, and they'll realize very quickly that the poetic point-scoring doesn't stand up to much of an interrogation at all. "Who should we encourage to die?" etc.
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Evolutionary explanations are useful on the descriptive layer. When kids gang up to bully the weakest of them, they're doing something done across many species. "Whether bullying a weak child is fun or awful is a matter of perspective from within the system" is certainly *a* take
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Whether one's visceral sense of horror toward death wanes due to evolutionary pressures to cede resources, I do not know. I DO know that the base reality *this* brain mapped via reasoning finds both social torturing of children & permanently destroying a human mind *horrifying.*
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