Do you feel bothered about the notion of being remembered after you die?

[Kryzantine]

I'm not talking about being remembered by your loved ones or something. I'm talking about being remembered by future generations who will have had no contact with you.

Doesn't it bother anyone? If I'm going to be remembered by society to be an example to, or to teach future generations, it would be done by people who have never met me, who do not know ME and where my heart is. There would be nobody who could stop and tell them that this is me and this is who I am. My self would eventually be reduced to myth and legend if I am not forgotten.

I'm get the feeling that I leave an impression on a lot of people. They say I'm one of the most interesting people they have ever met, done so many things and gone through so much faster than most people. Moralistic, yet liberal. Calculating, yet loving. Miserable, yet hopeful. But these people have all had the luxury of knowing me at my fullest, without anything stripped away. What happens when the future strips it and leaves only the most important bits in there? When nobody can see the whole picture, and what they think of me, is not actually me.

Does this really bother some people?

 

[nothingspringstomind]

While i'm not really bothered if people remember me after i'm gone, (seriously, most humans are forgotten within three generations of their death unless they did something AMAZING.) it is actually one of my goals to do something that i will be remembered for.
Mostly just vanity but i'd like to help humanity in some way before i go.
If i can't (which is likely) so be it.

 

[Avaholic03]

Billions of people have lived and died. Maybe some people have remembered them for a while, but eventually those people die too. Trying to be "remembered" is a losing battle, and I'm certainly not arrogant enough to believe I'm that important. I have no problem with being forgotten.

 

[Disaster Button]

I'm not really afraid of dying, just being forgotten. Or dying without having done something meaningful. People are generally forgotten after they die, as the relatively few people that knew them die, but it would be nice for a lot of the world to know your name and who you are, at least for awhile. As much as I'd like that, doing something meaningful before I die is more important to me as then I'd have at least done something worthwhile with my life, even if I'm forgotten.

 

[DEAD34345]

After I'm dead, how I'm remembered means nothing to me. Whether I'm remembered for 5 minutes or 5 decades my rotting corpse isn't going to give a damn, so why should I care while alive?

 

[The Lawn]

The main thing about death that annoys me is that I won't get to see either how awesome mankind becomes or how badly we fuck ourselves over.

That is unless in death you enter some sort of spectator mode, free to roam the world and universe for as long as you please. That would be cool.

As for being remembered, I probably won't by many people. But I hope that things I've worked on and will work on will be remembered. I never like taking center stage, hell I don't even like taking credit for things I've done to help other successes. Just knowing that someones life was made better by something I made or had a hand in making is enough for me.

 

[evilstonermonkey]

I don't especially enjoy having attention on me so I wouldn't want to be famous while I was alive, and once I'm dead I won't care. So no, being remembered or not by people other than those I care about isn't on my give-a-damn list either way.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I'd like to leave some literature or a movie in my name that becomes popular but I'll be content leaving this world with a son and/or daughter and great friends. Fame has never really been a goal for me.

 

[Kae]

No, I often fantasize that I do something really awesome like discovering a new element or a physics phenomena that no one had noticed before and thereby being remembered by everyone because I'd be in the history and physics or chemistry (not sure which field I'm studying yet).

 

[Sacman]

I am and I've said before I want to die alone and unloved, not worth anyone's time and forgotten within the week...

 

[open trap]

My goal in life is to be remembered through history for something. Im starting this by joining the Military after college

 

[OpticalJunction]

Not at all. I'll be dead and therefore incapable of wanting anything.

 

[Jedoro]

I don't really want to be remembered. By anyone. I'd even love to outlive everyone I know just so they won't remember me.

 

[Erana]

It never really occured to me to ever want such a thing until I realised that that's apparently a common fear.
I hope things go well for the people in the future, but I don't need to be a part of it to feel fulfilled now.

 

[InfiniteSingularity]

I don't know what I'd be remembered for. But my life is meaningless enough anyway, if I died and was forgotten then my life would be quite literally pointless. I'd have some closure knowing my life had some point