Most people cannot be brave unless they already have faced death. Once you experience this once or more than once and have come to terms with your mortality in reality sometimes you can be brave. But, understanding true bravery comes from accepting the fact that you could die in any given moment.
Most people walk around acting and on one level believing that they are immortal because in some ways that is what this culture teaches a person. To run from death and to pretend it doesn't exist. We quickly take away body parts in an accident so no one can see (or as few as possible) can see the horrific aspects to death. As a result children often believe themselves immortal as a direct result.
It's not that we don't want to see happy children but awful things can happen at any moment during a child or adult's life and if you shield children and adults from this then they will be completely unprepared for anything "Real" that happens in their lives.
Since being actually brave mostly is not possible without first facing your own death one or more times we deprive our children of "being able to survive" in really serious situations that they might face at literally any time.
So, depriving our children of being faced with the death of others or themselves they will be completely unprepared for death in any form when it arrives to touch them personally in a friend, relative or acquaintance.
Our culture is completely unrealistic in this way trying to make everything be a Disneyland. So, we disable our children by treating them to a cartoon like world like we do.
So, in an emergency children often become "psychologically completely disabled" rather than risking their lives to save their friends and relatives as is the way it is in most of the civilized and non-civilized world.
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