There is something human about the relationship between death and courage. Hegel makes it everything in the Master-Slave dialectic.
We suffer, struggle, dread, despair, and confront disease and dissapointment.
We free ourselves from our constraints, including the greatest internal constraint: the consciousness of inevitable death.
Ultimately, we strive—like W. E. B. Du Bois says in his description of spiritual strivings in The Souls of Black Folks.