[sammyg2]

When I was younger I went to lots of weddings.
Now I go to lots of funerals.

This is a serious question and I'm looking for insight from others and didn't want to muck up other threads.

Dying is a part of life but I often wonder what makes us grieve. Why do we feel so sad when someone dies?
Does it stem from the survival instinct? It seems instinctual but there are cultures who do not treat death the same way, so is grieving a learned trait or is not grieving learned? I dunno.

It doesn't seem to really be that you're immediately missing someone when you grieve, I've seen people grieve for someone they haven't seen in years or have never met.
Yet they still feel the strong emotion of sadness. It has to be more than simply regretting lost opportunity.

I've tried to make sense of it and understand what it is about how our brains are wired that makes us so sad when confronted with the death of others. It doesn't seem logical to me but I've felt it too even though I'm an insentitve bastage.

Maybe that's one of those things we're not supposed to understand.