This is a great video. There's that quote
Both deaths are inevitable. It's also inevitable that at some point in the future, the very last human will take his last breath. There's something very, very frightening about that inevitability... but something quite peaceful as well.Every person dies twice, once when you stop breathing, and when somebody mentions your name for the last time
Can you imagine being that last human? Chances are they'd not realize the importance of that breath. Chances are no other species or thing would either. In the grand scheme of things it would just be another moment. We put such an inflated amount of importance on ourselves.
Of course, that wouldn't be the end of the human race really. The effects we have on the world, from our buildings to climate change, would last on for much, much longer. We've changed the course of rivers, built asphalt seas miles upon miles wide, touched the sky with our buildings, altered the DNA of other living creatures, and possibly created both the largest desert and the largest rainforest on Earth. Climate change has reached the point that some scientists believe is irreversible. On an individual level, sure, we have an inflated importance, but our effects on the Earth, and maybe someday, the Universe at large, will last until the end.
the interesting thing about the last person is that, unlike just about everyone else, their deaths will happen in reverse - Someone will mention their name the last time, and then, later, they will die. absolutely agree.There's something very, very frightening about that inevitability... but something quite peaceful as well.