According to kübler-ross, when people protest and have objections to either learning about their impending death, or the manner of their impending death, this is called

The answer is: Denial

Denial happens when someone choose to comforted themselves with false narrative rather than have to face a cold hard truth

Death is a really scary concept for a lot of people and often really hard to face if it fell to someone that's really important to us. So, a lot of the people choose to deny the truth in their mind rather than have to be emotionally hurt