You will always read about people losing access to their Bitcoin in one way or another. Just make sure you use cold storage or passphrase protected wallet.dat & hopefully you won’t find yourself in this situation one day. Satoshi once said, “Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone."
It could be quite a relief if it's already safe in the other person's wallet, at least it could help them a lot, but losing your bitcoin because you forgot how to access it creates another impact. It would be regretting on our part how we able to store coins when we fail to secure its private keys, still its a lost bitcoin forever.