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Nicely made and good message. The time childless folks would be remembered would be even less, may be 10-20 years while their siblings and friends are around.
20 years or 100 years is about the same in the end. It’s all the blink of an eye to the universe.
"The flesh surrenders itself," he thought. "Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet I occurred."

-- From DUNE MESSIAH, by Frank Herbert