What is the alternative, keep all of your bitcoin until you die and then tell your kids to hold them until they die so forth forever? That makes no sense at all, if you are not using it, it worths zero.
I don't think so. No one is enforcing you to hold bitcoin forever but people are always emphasizing to use bitcoin instead of encashing it. Because, one day we will be able to buy everything for bitcoins and the right now I guess that I'm able to buy more than 50% of my life's need for bitcoins even I'm not from tier1 countries.