Social conformism is the basis for which the masses do not question the fundamental issues of life

The section of Heidegger's Being and Time that deals with death is unsurmountable in many respects.
It captures well, for example, how all fundamental human responses lie within the horizon of death, yet the majority of humanity avoids it out of fear and an innate instinct for social conformity, which views death as something that should always be considered as an event concerning others and never oneself.

Das Man läßt den Mut zur Angst vor dem Tode nicht aufkommen. Die Herrschaft der öffentlichen Ausgelegtheit des Man hat auch schon über die Befindlichkeit entschieden, aus der sich die Stellung zum Tode bestimmen soll. In der Angst vor dem Tode wird das Dasein vor es selbst gebracht als überantwortet der unüberholbaren Möglichkeit. [***].
"Das Man" [the They] does not allow the courage to confront the fear of death to emerge. The dominion of the public interpretation of "Das Man" has already decided the state of mind from which our attitude toward death is determined. In the fear of death, existence is brought before itself as entrusted to the insuperable possibility."

When faced with the possibility of death, the 'They' (Das Man), i.e. the masses, prefer not to ask questions and conform collectively to the rejection of the ultimate possibility, which would open up all other possibilities for inquiry. By annulling the ultimate possibility, they annul all other possibilities (of questions and answers).

PS. One of the most notable actions carried out by the cooperatores mali (promoters of Evil) in saeculo isto, within our human society, has been the seamless obliteration of death. They have substituted death with the pursuit of perpetual youth, health, and the extension of human life, with the ultimate goal being immortality.

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[***] Sein und Zeit § 51

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