>>1037544 Kind of. I've been doing the
Ancestry.com thing and realized that after you get to your great grandkids or so, you become- at best- an idea of someone that once existed. None of them actually remember you as a person. My dad only remembers his own grandma as "the toughest and meanest bitch that ever lived."
Especially these days as families are smaller and more spread out. I have 15 aunts/uncles (before getting into their spouses) but only really deal with 5 to 6 of them.
The exception being if you did some great accomplishment, at which point someone's going to remember you anyway as a name on a plaque or something.
And I'll always remember my aunties, one of whom lost her only son and the other who never married/had kids as my second and third mothers.
So having kids as a means "to preserve my legacy" is not something I put much stock in. Frankly, I'm more concerned about having someone to take care of me in old age, but even that is a crapshoot. We're saving up for that reason.
She hits 28 tomorrow and hasn't shown signs of changing and has encouraged me to get snipped but has agreed to wait a couple more years. Her parents were older when they had her and she does not want to repeat that.
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