The spiritual/philosophy guru Eckhart Tolle speaks of how, as humans, we resist the idea that our physical organism is not any more of less important that that of the gazillion of other organisms that come and go in the cycles of life.
He speaks of all the organisms, like the sea turtle hatchlings, of which few survive until adulthood.
He likens mans ego and the “story” of who we are, ( more ego ) as being akin to naming a goldfish, telling the fish it’s family “story” ( history) and issuing a birth certificate to the goldfish to add to the story of the fishes identity.
Then, of course, we have afforded this huge identity to an organism and therefore it;s death is greatly mourned rather than simply accepted for what it is, an organism that did not survive, like billions of other organisms that come and go every second of the night and day.
It wasn’t all that long ago that people often did not even name their infants until they survived for a year. In other words, they did not make up an identity for their offspring until it looked as if they might survive that critical first year or so.
As humans we have afforded all these good/bad, cruel/unjust, ” should/should NOT” “stories” to the natural ebb & flow of life, and we feel highly victimized when members of our family organisms perish. Especially when they do not jive with the “story” that babies, children and young adults should NOT die.
They do, and it is really true that we create so much suffering over these baseline facts and our human need to afford a “special” status to our human organism.