If you fail to reproduce (voluntarily or otherwise), only a small mutation in a giant cross-breeding pool is lost, not some great bloodline of ancestry. Provide

If you fail to reproduce (voluntarily or otherwise), only a small mutation in a giant cross-breeding pool is lost, not some great bloodline of ancestry. Provided, of course, that you're not literally the last living descendant of some genetic bottleneck. The total genetic consciousness of humanity cares for your particular genes about as much as you care for a single hair or cell of skin falling off the greater whole.