Actually, I think Fëanor was quite familiar with death. Look what happened to his mother. That death affected him for the rest of his life. His mother's death was anything but natural, or peaceful. People probably blamed him for his mother's death. He hated Indis, and his half-brothers.
Fëanor probably created the Silmarils out of a base instinct to prove that he was better than his brothers. Fingolfin and Finarfin were always hated by Fëanor, and he was always jealous of their new status. He wanted to outdo them for all of eternity, and I think he succeeded.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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