The main argument, however, is that your children 'carry you on' after your death: you will not be entirely extinguished, and foreknowledge of this brings consolation at a conscious or subconscious level. But do my brother and I carry on our parents?- Julian Barnes, Nothing To Be Frightened Of
Odd question, from a (bestselling) writer, 185 pages into a book substantially dealing with his mother and father. (Why else is he writing? one wonders, if not to achieve posterity.)
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