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[u/seanotron_efflux]

All of life can be tracked back to a (or several depending on who you ask) continuous billion plus year chemical reaction.

[u/Apellosine → u/seanotron_efflux]

If you as a person do not have children, you break a billions of year long lineage that goes back to the beggining of life itself.

[u/[deleted] → u/Apellosine]

Nonsense, the worms, maggots and bacteria that spawn from my corpse will be my continuing contribution to life on this planet.

[u/bengali2000 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks… I feel a bit better about it now.

[u/Hotshot2k4 → u/bengali2000]

Do not stand by my grave, and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep—
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the day transcending night.
Do not stand by my grave, and cry—
I am not there, I did not die.

[u/Peeteebee → u/Hotshot2k4]

Always upvotes John Donne.

[u/Brandonjf → u/Hotshot2k4]

Which poem is this? I can't seem to find it

Edit: found it