system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Do bees know they're going to die if they sting someone/something?

If so, how could they follow through when the motivation of life is to survive and reproduce....?
gpt
The short answer is no. 

Bees aren't complex enough organisms to have a concept of "self" in the way that we do. Let alone a concept of life and death. Insects brains aren't really much more than hard-coded behavioral rules.