Fear of death has always been present i human beings, but it has been also a source of creativity. People dreamed how terrible the world would be without them, they depicted afterlife, invented religions, dreamed of never dying or guided their whole lives and behavior through knowing and through fearing their own mortality.

My question now is this: has our modern world changed the way we perceive death?

We know from history that people always have changed the way they approach death. The Romans had the sacrifices and the fights were people died constantly and one of the purposes of these death/murder shows seems to have been making death familiar to all Romans. The Christians made love and community more important than individuals, and through reducing individualism it seems that the purpose was to having a "bigger picture" than your own end, and so on.

Now, in our modern world we don't use to sacrifice human beings in the way the ancients were used to and personal success seems to have become much more important than the Christian "love". Nonetheless, I have serious reasons to believe that in the contemporary world, our relationship with death is less fearsome than that on of the ancient Romans and of the medieval Christians. We are not so familiar with murder as the
Romans were, we lack all that medieval altruism (we seem to see our modern egos as the center of the universe), but our relationship with death might have become less fearful today for many reasons.

Some of these reasons may be: we take pride in knowing that nothing bad will happen to us after death (the ancients had fears of afterlife sometimes), we have less fears when we get sick or we travel, we are less exposed to wars and to terrible murders, we are less exposed to darkness and ambiguity, and, the most important of all, we have the most busiest brains than any other generation in human history. We are under the constant impact of information processing, tasks, goals, etc., that we might have less time to think about death and our human brains may get so busy in these days that many of us get old without even realizing it and the only time when they may find the luxury of thinking death is when for some extraordinary reasons (like a long black out, a trip to some country without internet, or an outage like that of Microsoft a few days ago) someone stops for many hours from processing information, from doing tasks, etc., and instead of doing what he is used to do, his attention is turned to other things (like bringing back memories, remembering people he lost, imagining a different life, looking at everything around him with a different eye from that one which processes info all the time and sees tasks everywhere).

What is your opinion on these things? Am I right in believing that in the contemporary world our brains are less tuned towards the fear of death?