Hypothetical situation ethics doesn't factualize the actual evolving process daily. Just the behavior of people staying in character rejecting how life is self evident each rotation each reproduction is equally sharing time 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 56 seconds uniquely here until decomposed as a corpse lived since rotation conceived that replaced their previous 4 generation gap producers that brought about your time lived so far.
the eternal question is, did you become a parent or just an aunt or uncle to your siblings creating another generation. Maybe you outlived your post generations added.
either way your sole chromosomes become extinct when dead. Your ancestral DNA providers live forward in your nieces and nephews or cousins that became parents or not.
How life goes on day in and day out regardless if you ever existed or now. I know my DNA value to evolving in plain sight as uniquely alive so far equally inhabiting space naturally evolving in plain sight self evidently me. You have no idea how priceless that information is and was so far.