But even in far more mundane ways, humanity never ceases to surprise and amaze me at 35,000 feet.
And faced with the knowledge that humanity would cease to exist soon after your death, would you still be motivated to have children?
Called "Children of Men," it describes a world in the not too distant future in which, for reasons unknown, no children have been born for 18 years, with the prospect that humanity will cease to exist.
Gandhi argued that without procreation, humanity would cease to exist.
Higher education is being reinvented for a selfie age in which the humanities may cease to exist as a field of scholarship.
If someone were to deny that she has a duty of special concern for the well-being of her country and compatriots, beyond what the laws of her country mandate and beyond the concern she has for humans and humanity, would she thereby cease to be a citizen (in the sense involving equal standing)?
Admitting that the search for "absolute peace" in the world was unattainable, she insisted, however, that humanity should not cease the pursuit of peace "like a traveller in the desert fixes his eyes on one guiding star".
The world is set to end in thirteen days, and Lightning is chosen as the Savior, a spiritual guide for humanity, which has ceased to age due to the influence of chaos.
They are begging for resolution, a cease-fire, humanity.
The first is one of the greatest gifts from God to humanity; without it the human race would cease to exist.
