What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers - from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate

[Kaleva]

6. To propagate the species

A hundred years after our deaths, maybe just a few will know our names and know anything about our lives.

Just outside of town is an old, abandoned cemetery. In it are some very impressive headstones at the heads of the graves of once prominent citizens of my hometown. Their funerals probably were well attended but they now lay forgotten.

My wife's and I grandchildren love coming over and I tell my wife that when they become old like us, they'll tell their grandchildren about Nana and Papa.

Up in the attic there is a briefcase stuffed with paper. Papers that would explain why, to someone who was observent, why our early group family pictures are the way they are. My wife and I are the only two that know about the briefcase and what it contains. My hope is that the family members who are young today will read those papers later when they are older.