Just to clarify, this was not intended to be self-analytical but it's starting to turn that direction. We need to steer it back to "people" and not "person".
I'm trying to understand a human reaction to death which seems natural to most, at least in this culture.
By understanding why people do what they do I can then possibly understand my reactions better, but that's a side benefit. Not looking for free psychoanalysis.
This is an attempt to better understand a characteristic of people in general.
I'm hoping there's a reasonable clinical explanation but I haven't found it yet.
Maybe it's one of those "that's just how it is, accept it" things but I hope not.
And for the record, I'm a cold-hearted insensitive SOB so let's keep that in mind
