In all seriousness - and this may be the most important thing I'm trying to explain - what my over analytical brain realizes is that I'm also capturing raw recordings of conversations with people who eventually will be leaving the Earth. So someday I hope that one of these recordings will act as a documentation of someone's voice, personality, and laughter - to be used to remember someone by a loved one once gone.

This is the best paragraph in the whole post, right there.
That is exactly how I feel about photography.