Since humans and their culture evolved, there are not many humans that are very much like that.
Humans aren’t “naturally” like that—at least only a small subset of memes convinces normal ones of the intellectual truth of the proposition “life has no meaning because/if you merely die at the end”.
It is a valley of rationality sickness. If I get money now and there is an apocalypse later—such as perhaps the sun expanding to swallow the Earth (especially if we never colonize other places), or the heat death of the universe—I still consider it all worthwhile. The future in which I get a lot of stuff and then everyone dies in a cataclysm is much preferable to me to the one in which I don’t get a lot of stuff and everyone dies in a cataclysm.
Humans aren’t “naturally” like that—at least only a small subset of memes convinces normal ones of the intellectual truth of the proposition “life has no meaning because/if you merely die at the end”.
It is a valley of rationality sickness. If I get money now and there is an apocalypse later—such as perhaps the sun expanding to swallow the Earth (especially if we never colonize other places), or the heat death of the universe—I still consider it all worthwhile. The future in which I get a lot of stuff and then everyone dies in a cataclysm is much preferable to me to the one in which I don’t get a lot of stuff and everyone dies in a cataclysm.