No but I do sometimes think about how significant people in my life that died early(my dad and grandma when I was around 20) if I live to 70 will have been dead for over 50 years
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Does It Ever Bother You That No One Will Have Given a Shit That You Lived and Died 80 Years After You Die (At Best)?
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No I'd be more worried if I was still being discussed 80 years after my death. Must have done some bad shit.
This seems like an awful way to think about ones life's worth. There's human beings that live beyond 80 years. My grandmother was 93 when she died and she is immediately remembered by her great grandchildren. Now their great grandchildren wil not remember her, but their essence of their being will somehow could be impacted. That's the code I live by until extinction.
Eh, it's whatever.
It's not about having a timeless legacy, it's more about treating people right and doing the small things to enhance you and everyone's life around you in little ways. You'd be surprised how many people don't even care about their own family history, so there's really no reason to worry about it because no one cares, not even your own family in the future most likely.
I can see where you're coming from though, like you can have amazing parents who raised you right and did everything for you and yet 100 years from now it's as if they never existed, so it can be a little depressing to ponder, but only because of your personal attachment to them in the here and now.
It's not about having a timeless legacy, it's more about treating people right and doing the small things to enhance you and everyone's life around you in little ways. You'd be surprised how many people don't even care about their own family history, so there's really no reason to worry about it because no one cares, not even your own family in the future most likely.
I can see where you're coming from though, like you can have amazing parents who raised you right and did everything for you and yet 100 years from now it's as if they never existed, so it can be a little depressing to ponder, but only because of your personal attachment to them in the here and now.
Yeah it kinda bothers me. I wish there was a way to leave something of myself behind to help those in future generations.
It also doesn't help that the medication I'm taking seems to give me random night terrors about dying and non existence. It's not cool, brain.
It also doesn't help that the medication I'm taking seems to give me random night terrors about dying and non existence. It's not cool, brain.
No. Feels like no one gives a shit now but that might be the deep depression talking. I'll be dead and returned to the great will.
This thread reminds me of the story of Herostratus:
Not really, but I do take great solace in the fact that my name is in the credits of various video games, so at least there'll be some proof that I existed and made something (that probably won't be curated, lol).
I don't care about legacy. I'm more concerned that I won't be alive to keep experiencing things.
Nope I could care less, I was born without ambition... might be part of my aspergers. Plus I'm not sure if the human race will exist at that point 🤔
I wasn't particularly close with great grandparents on either side. I haven't seen my grandfather on one side in 18 years. My grandmother from that same side died when I was 5. Grandfather on the other side died 7 years ago. I do talk to my grandmother though.
Point I'm making is that I don't expect much after my kids grow up and move out to live on their own, raising families if they choose to. I'm 100% okay with being forgotten at some point. I don't care if my life is meaningless in the long run, because it will have been meaningful for me while alive.
Point I'm making is that I don't expect much after my kids grow up and move out to live on their own, raising families if they choose to. I'm 100% okay with being forgotten at some point. I don't care if my life is meaningless in the long run, because it will have been meaningful for me while alive.
In the UK I believe that your grave space is only legally yours (unless family members object) for 400 years.
No...doesn't bother me in the least. Perfectly fine with being one of the billions that was here for a tiny speck of time and gone just as quick. Even those who made the most profound impact on human history are just a tiny speck in the grand scheme of things. Just get through your life and try not to be a cunt...have some fun along the way, and you're golden. Think of all the absolute cunts we see on social media and in the news...we're already better than all those assholes, just by default. Anything else we do is a bonus. Some of us cure diseases that impact millions and save lives, some of us are just there to show a single small kindness to a stranger that makes said stranger's day...both impacts are valid and worthwhile.
Was talking about this quite recently. I was a graveyard with my wife and as you walk through the grounds you go from newly decesed to ones that passed many years ago. At first you can clearly see placed flowers, cards and other tokens with well kept headstones, but as you get to the far end to those that died many years ago the flowers are non existent and some of the headstones are in such a state that you cant make out the messages or names written on them with some smashed and broken into a pile of rocks.
It's kinda sad, but no matter what your beliefs i dont think it matters once your gone.
It's kinda sad, but no matter what your beliefs i dont think it matters once your gone.
Family and friends forgetting about me 80 years after I die would be awesome, since that would mean my friends and family would live for at least 80 years after I died.
It scares the shit out of me. Death is literally the scariest concept. I wish i were religious so i had an easier answer and my fears could go away.
Nope because it's not like I'd be alone in being not remembered, millions-billions of us won't be. Plus, it makes me appreciate the crazy amount of people that have been involved into making this specific moment possible. Every object on my desk had to have hundreds or thousands of people involved to actually exist.
I don't care if people remember me. The thing I'm having trouble with lately is knowing I have to watch so many people I love pass away.
I want to be remembered, and hopefully some day revered, while alive. I have no use for that when I am dead especially if there is no achievement of mine to remember.
It does for sure. It's hard to give a shit some days when I know nothing I do actually makes any difference.
Nope, doesn't bother me. The future generations have their own lives to lead, their own loves to find and their own passions to follow. That makes me happy.
Plus organs going to science so a part of me could have an impact in another family, and they might be remembered. That's chill as far as I'm concerned.
Plus organs going to science so a part of me could have an impact in another family, and they might be remembered. That's chill as far as I'm concerned.
A little, but it very low on my priorities of things to worry about.
Only thing I can think of to make sure I'm remembered if I care enough to go through with it, is making sure I leave something of value behind I know my heirs would appreciate and ensure it is passed on with the details/stories that comes with it.
Beyond that I will be dead and I can only hope my genes live on in hopefully a better future I could ever imagine to live in.
Only thing I can think of to make sure I'm remembered if I care enough to go through with it, is making sure I leave something of value behind I know my heirs would appreciate and ensure it is passed on with the details/stories that comes with it.
Beyond that I will be dead and I can only hope my genes live on in hopefully a better future I could ever imagine to live in.
I'm a scientist. I'll die knowing my work contributed in some small way too scientific advancement, even though I'll be forgetten.
I mean out of the trillions of people that will no doubt be put on this Earth, there's no way anyone will remember us centuries from now.
