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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
Approximate author period: c. 1931 AD · modern
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- Irvin D. Yalom
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- Approximate author period: c. 1931 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Irvin D. Yalom: documented birth year 1931; activity date not established. Wikidata Q362721, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362721 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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