Well I suppose you might have a point about most of that but what about people who convert their whole photographic library to cd. Years of work converted to digital...of course...to back up their already extensive analog archive. But paper does go bad and so do negs so I suppose trying to hold onto digital media seems fruitless in the greater view of things. But one can only hope that what visuals of ones passing are created during the journey, will be around for some to peruse once one is gone...yes!? :)