Usually, "dying" people are happy when they leave us. It doesn’t say anything about our immortality.
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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.
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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I also don’t know if there’s research on this, but anecdotally I certainly know more old people than young who say “I’ve seen enough, I’d be willing to go now.” Obviously hard to disentangle from societal messaging, loss of quality of life etc.
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