[Carl_Platt]

This is true. A friends parents house burned to the ground. At their advanced age, the only thing they complained about were all the sentimental items they lost. You can always buy a new camera, but man, those wedding pictures and ornaments aren't quite as replaceable.

[rmc]

Especially for older people. Back in the day they didn't have cameras as much and developing film was expensive. That wedding album might have the only photos you have of a relative that is now dead.

[Markoff]

that's why ypu have Scan photos inside Google photos to backup them in cloud easily with smartphone without scanner

[rmc]

Yes you should do that. But it's easy to forget to do that.