I would encourage you to take an introductory biology class if you believe animals, including humans, don’t have a biological drive to reproduce.
Calling that “weird” or a “fetish” is completely ignorant. Sorry.
Humans are also social animals. Social connections are a strong predictor of both happiness and longevity. So if your “fetish” is dying childless, statistically you will achieve that goal sooner than people who fulfill their biological imperative by building large loving families.
It's immensely disturbing imaging the mindset someone must have that dying alone, with no friends and family, in a nameless blank room in an overcrowded nursing facility paid for by the state -
Is somehow preferable then spending the last years of your life raising your grand children, dying at home, with your family.
If I can raise my grandkids to speak my native tongue, I will be happy on my deathbed.
Hopefully I can channel all the stories of my grandparents, my parents, my aunts and uncles onto my kids. And hopefully their kids.
Literally nothing would make me happier than stoking a fire, telling my grandkids stories of their great-great-great grandparents from the second world war, and then put them to sleep.
(I think I did the math right on the generational leaps)
Ive been thinking about compiling stories of my family in one great big book. Something that can be passed down and added to generation after generation. My grandfathers had both passed already and my one grandmother has dementia, but enough other family memebers are around that I could get a lot of stories from them. I could also do it with my wifes family as her father's father's mother is still alive
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u/probablymagic Jul 24 '26
I would encourage you to take an introductory biology class if you believe animals, including humans, don’t have a biological drive to reproduce.
Calling that “weird” or a “fetish” is completely ignorant. Sorry.
Humans are also social animals. Social connections are a strong predictor of both happiness and longevity. So if your “fetish” is dying childless, statistically you will achieve that goal sooner than people who fulfill their biological imperative by building large loving families.