my observation has been that 55+ people of my acquaintance don't so much want a biological legacy as kids as they want to have grandkids which they don't have to full-time raise themselves :)
YES, absolutely. I think it must work differently for Betans given expectations of continued vitality past, say, sixty or seventy--but then the nostalgia and reflection ought to work differently than it does for mainstream US culture(s?), and it doesn't sound as though it does. Arrgh, I dunno.
With a different co-parent and with having begun a bit earlier, I would have liked two, but without both those things together, there's no chance of it. :)
Noted re: lack of thoroughness--that does seem to be a key, alas.
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YES, absolutely. I think it must work differently for Betans given expectations of continued vitality past, say, sixty or seventy--but then the nostalgia and reflection ought to work differently than it does for mainstream US culture(s?), and it doesn't sound as though it does. Arrgh, I dunno.
With a different co-parent and with having begun a bit earlier, I would have liked two, but without both those things together, there's no chance of it. :)
Noted re: lack of thoroughness--that does seem to be a key, alas.