For me it all fits in that famous Rutger Hauer's monologue: "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain" - still freaks the hell out of me every time. Not that I think of my experiences as especially important, I mean I certainly had never seen C-beams glitter in the dark, but still the idea of all the stories and people I knew in a way dying with me, it just seems like such a horrible waste...
