RpNation

I don’t know, but interesting question.
Perhaps we need a point of closure? Like “Hey, they’re gone, move on.”

Maybe evolutionarily, we need to focus on preserving every member of our species, meaning that we would naturally feel bad if a member of our clan died.

This seems the most logical answer at the moment. But nothing less has come to be expected of Omega here.

I wonder that too. It's quite annoying, with me being more of a night owl, not really a mourning person.

Humans aren't known for being natural. We've got many emotions that aren't beneficial from a completely logical standpoint. It's sorta what makes us human, when you think about it.

I think it’s to try and earn sympathy from others.

I'd tend to really disagree. Not every human is needlessly selfish.

Putting on serious Idea for a moment, it confuses me to say "this evolved for". Evolution is a gacha of traits which TENDENTIALLY last more generations and have better chances of passing down their genes if they are useful, thus perpetuating the traits (oversimplified of course). Sadness wouldn't necessarily have to evolve directly as a beneficial, especially given we're talking about the human race which had

other advantages that make that one's redundancy less impactful, like the overwhelming advantages of fire, tools, language...

I’m not sure why we mourn either, In fact, I’m still mourning from a friends...passing...But, I guess I mourn because I regret treating him like an asshole the first time I met him.