I'd agree with the premise, but I had a different conclusion. For me realizing I'm going to die, emphasizes something else. We're on this Earth for an ridiculously brief moment in time. And as you age time only goes by faster and faster. And so to me it emphasized the need to make sure there's another generation of humans to come after us. It led to a bit of an obsession with fertility.

That's probably about as realistically close as we'll ever come to being able to transfer your consciousness. But it's even better than just transferring your consciousness because it comes with the added of benefit that the 'new you(s)' have every chance of being even better than you, especially if you pick a good quality partner and raise them well. I don't care if my distant progeny have any idea I ever existed, but I want to give them a chance to exist, and I'll always be some small part of them anyhow.