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I think animals are pretty aware of it or they wouldn't run away from danger

It is instinctual. They don’t comprehend what death is.

I think most non-humans have a better understanding than humans do of death. It's just an innate knowledge, that they don't have to fight over and fear.

How do you know other humans aren't just advanced chatbots? It's easy to think that something is not conscious just because it seems less complex, but there really is no way to know. As Decartes put it 'cogito ergo sum', or 'I think therfore I am'. And that is the only thing you can truly know, that YOU can think. Not that anyone or anything else can.

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Or... humans are the only animals that have so much trouble accepting it.