This is one of the most
horrifying ideas I can think of: what if, one day, I
die, and there is
nobody there to shed a
tear?
Nobody there to remember? If someone were there to shed a
tear, at least I would be preserved in some form of
memory, if only for a fairly brief
time. But if nobody
remembers, and nobody
cries, then won't I simply be lost for the rest of
eternity to the awful
Nothing?
This same idea is applicable to humanity. What if
humanity is
dies before it finds some way to preserve its
memory? The
Earth might as well have never been. You and I might as well have never been.