lions and tigers and bears
and snakes and demons and reptoid ET's
no less. . . .
We all have our petty little problems, but it's tough to trump the End of Everything for sheer drama.
Ever since the beginning of history, people have been worrying about the end of history. There's even a name for this obsession: Eschatology. It tends to crop up pretty regularly in human history, especially around large traumatic events and numerologically significant calendar notations.