It's been said, "A person is forgotten after two generations." What happens to the photos of someone? Are they packed in a box & left to further die in a basement where the mold completely erases their memory? Or does a person end up just a name on a census? I suspect that such is the legacy of most.
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Most of us will be forgotten. If we have grandchildren they might retain a few hazy memories of us. It doesn’t matter at all IMO because our true essence is greater than our individual bodies. We have a brief sensation of being a separate individual self, but that sensation is an illusion. Beyond the world of sensations there is ultimate reality, shining forth forever. Forever because time itself is an illusion.
WilliamFleming
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Jan 6, 2020
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What the fuck are you talking about?
Since I had no children I will be forgotten pretty much right after I am gone.
Sticks48
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Jan 6, 2020
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Ditto. While all those nuns talked about how wonderful their afterlives would be, I imagined myself watching humankind and seeing what they were doing. ‘Twon’t happen.
We’ve all been a footprint of mankind’s march toward somewhere.
Regardless of fading photos on the basement floor we have made our contribution.
Probably best leave it there
Geoffrey51
Level 8
Jan 6, 2020
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All to be forgotten.
I don't expect to be much remembered or remarked on ten years after I'm gone, to be honest.
It's not that unusual -- or, in my view, that consequential.
The value of my life to me consists in how much I'm enjoying / appreciating it. I am not trying to be immortal. After I'm gone I won't notice if I'm remembered or not. I'll be dead, after all. And I'm perfectly fine with that.
mordant
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