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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spinster grandaunt who was a school teacher had a great life. No husband and no kids. A life free of responsibility. After her retirement she travelled a lot. Now, she is in assisted living in Georgia and happy as a clam. Very small carbon footprint too and no fear of climate change, pandemic, societal decay. When she is gone, she is gone. [/quote]

That is an interesting way to frame things. Apart from being a school teacher and helping students that just sounds like a life of no meaning to me.[/quote]

Pretty much anyone will leave no memory for future generations. We will be remembered by our kids, unless of course you are  Nobel prize winner or built a University hall. Its not how others perceive the meaning of your life: it's how YOU feel about your life.

I know a married couple (also school teachers, and childless) who ended just like that - in the nursing home. They even opted for separate apartments there, so freaking tired of each other in 40 years marriage! They now enjoy playing chess with other patients.

I don't see how their contribution into society or their life was more meaningful vs the example of a single lady. 
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The idea that you must have kids to contribute to society is flawed. The world cannot handle more people. Why must we have kids or get married?  The idea is perpetuated that a well lived kind life has no meaning if it is average. But the truth is that every single person who writes here has not even managed to have an average life. Most have contributed nothing but just consumed and polluted the world. Most have had personal and professional issues and have been unfulfilled.  I think the life of a spinster, childless school teacher is great, just as the life of a childless couple is great. [/quote]

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