How to make philosophical ideas more relatable?

The consequence of some ideas can be so distant in the future or so foreign to most people that creating a relatable setting or character to exploit them can be hard, I'm being told.

In particular, the real human life expectancy is about 80 years (lets round it to 100). So, any consequence on much larger scales (for example : million, billion years or even more) would probably be completely unrelatable to us. Questions like "what's the point of accumulating knownledge when everything cease to exist in bazillions years ?" may seem very unrelatable.

So, how do you make these questions more relatable ? How do you make more relatable, for example, a character who fought for immortality and was pretty successful until he realizes that this quest was impossible ? That now he has to face not only his own death but also the end of this dream ?

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