@nosville22 Someone in the comments mentioned there was a rejected option of moving it to a higher orbit and keeping it there as a historical relic.
If that was feasible, imagine being able to inspect the ruins of the ISS a thousand years from now. We lament the loss of things like the Library of Alexandria and whatnot, and yet we're scrapping our own history that is happening today.
I was bummed, too, but, from what I read, "feasible" is doing a lot of work in this case
It would have required a staggering quantity of fuel to lift it to geostationary orbit.