This article explores the experience of childlessness in individuals who want children. Psychoanalytic literature has documented many psychic meanings of childlessness. The author focuses on one factor that has not received much attention: a loss of connection to early objects and continuity with one's past and future. The author provides several clinical cases—both male and female, as well as a discussion of the life and work of the famous artist, Frida Kahlo, to demonstrate how childlessness can rob the individual of a way of coping with his or her fears about death. The author speculates on the sense of the inevitability of death as a driving force toward procreation.