What Makes You Think Future Lives Might Care?

Life has been stashing fossils
In the dirt billions of years,
But until humans no one,
Not one species, took a shine
To digging up those fossils
For any reason, much less
Comparative discussion.

What makes you think when you’re gone,
All gone, any new species
Will take an interest in you
And any of your remains?
Billions of years of fossils
Fascinated their living
Descendants not in the least.