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Do you care if you are remembered when you die?

EmeraldJewel 7 May 11
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Why should I care?

I'll be dead.

8

No. Because I won't know. I'll be dead.

7

Being concerned about being remembered is just poisonous ego. If you are or you aren't it won't matter to you if you are dead. You will know NOTHING.

7

I don't know if I'll be remembered, but I hope that some will look back on my life and smile. So, maybe a fraction of myself cares, but in all honesty, does it really matter? I'll be dead.

7

Yes. 100% yes. Phylis was a family friend who made carrot cake for the holidays every year and would give them to her family and included us. When she died of cancer, there were a few years without carrot cake. Now I make about 30 carrot cakes and 150 cupcakes and deliver them to friends and family between Thanksgiving and Christmas. When I do it, I think of how much work Phylis put into this and how she included us. I remember how she used to yell at my father and put him in his place when he needed it. I remember the first time my father apologized. I was 24 and being deployed and he screamed at me when I told him. Phylis yelled at him and changed my relationship with my father forever. When ever a friend loses someone, I bring them "Fuck Cancer" cupcakes and tell them about Phylis and what a difference she made in my life and how my memory of her changes me and changes the world.

I don't want to be remembered for anything but to know that I lived a life worth remembering. I want to make a difference that outlives me, by even 5 minutes, because then I will have changed the world. I won't care once I'm dead as I'll be gone, but I care now.

7

I'd settle for being remembered while I'm still alive.

Keeping it real... This is good !!!!

6

No not really.

6

I guess it would depend on how I am remembered and I guess that's dependent on how I live

5

Not in the least. I just live life. I hope to make others smile and try to do right, but remembering me isn't important. Remember how to treat others.

5

By my family would be nice. I’m not going to be around so it doesn’t really matter.

5

No, I don’t. I have asked my family to cremate me when I die. So the funeral service will be held only with the family members at home or restaurant.

5

No, because I assume at some point everyone I know will get dementia anyways.

5

This isn't a real focus for me. No, I guess I don't.

5

No. As a former teacher, college instructor, and staff developer for public schools, as well as simple contacts as a person, I know that I have influenced hundreds, if not thousands of people. From feedback I know that for many that influence was highly positive. I don't care if those influenced don't remember where he influence came from. But, I do take pride in the fact that the influence occurred.

5

Not particularly. I know there are some who will remember me. Their reasons are their own.

5

Not really, i'll be remembered by those whose lives i touched for a short time, then they too will be gone ?

5

Not sure..... lots of people remember Hitler, Sadaam and Stalin.... so......

5

Nobody is remembered after they die. To prove it, tell me all about your great-great-great- grandmother.

She wasn't so great after all, was she? 😛

She had kids , who had kids , who had kids , who had kids , who had kids , and here I am . I had kids , who had kids . Although , looking at the geneology stuff , can be interesting and fun .

5

Not at all. Not sure they remember me now?

jab60 Level 6 May 12, 2018
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What? I will be dead.......

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A person dies twice. Once as they go in the ground and again the last time their name is uttered.

I would like to be remembered, but only if it inspires or brings a smile.

That's quite depressing and true.

5

Only by my daughter. At the moment every one else can KMA.

5

I'm not that sure I am remembered now.

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Not really. Just my having lived and interacted with people has changed the world (I think for the better). I don't feel a need to be remembered, because I know the world is better place for my having been in it whether or nothing anyone remembers me. That is enough for me.

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Not at all.

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I think we all want to be remembered, )but in reality we will be forgotten over time.

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