Have I personally attacked anyone or tried to convince anyone to have children or what is your post supposed to mean, Climbee?
Well, read it yourself:
OP plans without a children's room, that's very sad
For you... don't necessarily transfer that to others.
These walls will never hear the laughter of children.
With that you imply that such a house has a deficiency. Why? I personally can do perfectly fine without children's laughter echoing from my walls - especially early before 6 am (which my nephews liked to produce extensively in their early years).
You don't, okay. But that such a house is automatically a sad crypt, well.... think about it...
I truly imagine it painfully, having to grow old alone
Again here: not necessarily, as already explained.
And as Buchweizen also noted:
whether self-inflicted or determined by fate.
Here you assume that not having children is SELF-INFLECTED (I already see the moral finger being pointed at those unwilling to procreate) and indeed an evil fate. A judgment that is not necessary.
For you, a life without children (laughter) is unimaginable and poor. That's your choice, and I gladly believe that this is how it is for you and that your children mean the greatest happiness to you. It's the same with my brother and I see that too. I am happy for both of you. But please don't imply that people who don't have children are supposed to be unhappy and express your pity about it.
That would be something I would not care about at all after I'm dead
Exactly! Although our house has a room that could be used well as a children's room and a second children's room for an older child in the basement (with daylight window) is also possible. And if you sacrifice the gallery and put in a ceiling there, you get a pretty spacious room.
But primarily we are building for ourselves and our needs now. We only made sure that the staircase is wide enough to possibly install a stairlift in old age. For the elderly who grow old alone and lonely and nurse their depressions - or something like that...
Then you are to be pitied, because whoever doesn't care about that has no one they want to leave something to...
Our nephews and niece will inherit, or my brother if we should die before him. But they have to take the house as it is. If the plot and living situation are still the same as now, they will not complain.
He just said that he doesn't care what happens to the house. Whether the heirs tear it down, sell it... they will certainly get something from it. It's best to pass it on with warm hands.
I wholeheartedly agree with that too!