If humanity suddenly dissapeared, for how long would traces of our existence remain? The World Without Us by Alan Weisman explores that question.
Poul Anderson's haunting short story "In Memoriam" does the same, in a more fictionalized form. It begins like this:
Against the inexorable forces of time, will humanity leave any lasting mark?
The last man on Earth knew not that he was. Nor would he have cared. He had met very few other humans in his life, and none since his woman coughed herself into silence.
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