No one will remember me in the end (families die out, civilizations collapse, planets burn, the universe thins out to heat death)

--I'm having déjà vu; I have read someone else expressing this exact sentiment, with some, but not all, of these same parentheticals.

It must be on a lot of minds.

We work, we sometimes harm through action or inaction; we try to do better ... which is to say, we work.