Good post but the whole "buy time to see your child graduate, get married or give birth" trope is quite frankly very annoying.

Older people have more going on, and more reasons to live, than whatever the next generations are up to. Even if we have children.

I had curative (hopefully, presumably) kidney cancer surgery 11 years ago. So far I've enjoyed travelling, socializing, working, coding, chess and other hobbies in the extra time I've been granted and I hope for decades more time to enjoy life. I don't have children. never aspired to it.

Sorry for the rant!