In Larry Niven's Known Space future history, Terrestrial human beings are mutated Pak breeder colonists of a former Slaver food planet.
In Poul Anderson's Brain Wave, intelligence increases because Earth moves out of a galactic radiation field that had dampened intelligence.
In Anderson's "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," Jorith dies in Gothland in AD 302. Almost immediately afterwards, in terms of his own experience, Carl is on the Moon in 2319. Earth is nearly full and:
"I lost myself in the sight of that glorious white-swirled blueness. Jorith had lost herself there, two thousand years ago."
-"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," 2319, p. 375.
What better way to see a single death in its cosmic perspective?
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