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Among other reasons, if you die there will be people mourning you, whereas if you had never existed in the first place there won't.
But the whole point of the post above is that our personal feelings are negligible next the enormity of the utilitarian consequences behind our feelings.
Caring about the world isn't about having a gut feeling that corresponds to the amount of suffering in the world, it's about doing the right thing anyway. Even without the feeling.
The fact that no one knows the unborn person yet doesn't mean that she doesn't matter.
I was using mourning synecdochically to refer to all the externalities your death would have on other people, not just their feelings.