I don't have to be thrilled about death to have a basic understanding of how basic our understanding of consciousness, biology, and neurology are. Nor to know how much the physical world resists making tiny machines and measurements necessary to explore these frontiers, or the ethical dilemmas involved in exploring how consciousness works that vastly slow and perhaps outright prevent answering questions like "can we replace little bits of someone with some machine we can maintain easier in the interest of prolonging them?"
Also I do happen to know how the universe ends.