One of the most heartbreaking things during this war has been seeing so many truly exceptional people die — and knowing they never had the chance to have children.
There’s something deeply painful about losing not just a life, but the entire future line of someone remarkable. No continuation. No legacy.
This is why the kind of technology mentioned here — being able to generate viable sperm or egg cells from other tissues — feels profound to me.
Not in the abstract. Not in a speculative future.
But as something that could mean: even if a soldier falls before having kids, part of them doesn’t have to be lost forever.
One of the most heartbreaking things during this war has been seeing so many truly exceptional people die — and knowing they never had the chance to have children.
There’s something deeply painful about losing not just a life, but the entire future line of someone remarkable. No continuation. No legacy.
This is why the kind of technology mentioned here — being able to generate viable sperm or egg cells from other tissues — feels profound to me.
Not in the abstract. Not in a speculative future.
But as something that could mean: even if a soldier falls before having kids, part of them doesn’t have to be lost forever.