[kotyk]

I'm from Ukraine.

One of the most heartbreaking things during this war has been seeing so many truly exceptional people die — and knowing they never had the chance to have children.

There’s something deeply painful about losing not just a life, but the entire future line of someone remarkable. No continuation. No legacy.

This is why the kind of technology mentioned here — being able to generate viable sperm or egg cells from other tissues — feels profound to me.

Not in the abstract. Not in a speculative future.

But as something that could mean: even if a soldier falls before having kids, part of them doesn’t have to be lost forever.