>Has to work for food, water, position and feel pain
>Has to shit and jerk off and find mate
>Too sick, Too old or young sometimes
>Gets eaten alive sometimes
>99.99% or more go extinct

Even when offspring go on, everything you struggled to learn and perfect will become just as disconnected to your lineage as you are disconnected from your great great grandparents or 20 or 2000 great grandparents.