How do you want remembered when you're gone?

#455426

When the time comes and you leave this world, what kind of legacy do you want to leave - if any? Do you wish to just disappear from view or do you want to leave something behind? If so, what?

Thought it might be an interesting discussion.

C

Dod101 · #455428

All I would like is for somebody (preferably not a family member; they ought to say or at least think that anyway) to say 'For all his foibles he was a good man'.

Dod

AleisterCrowley · #455434

He was harmless, and always bought his round

AsleepInYorkshire · #455437

Clariman wrote:When the time comes and you leave this world, what kind of legacy do you want to leave - if any? Do you wish to just disappear from view or do you want to leave something behind? If so, what?

Thought it might be an interesting discussion.

C

I'm not leaving. I can't afford it :lol:

I want to leave my daughter equipped for the road ahead. I want her to have the confidence I've been denied. I want her to sleep nights and enjoy every day of her life. I want her to have lots of friends and a close family around her. She will have to build her life. She's already started.

I will disappear when I die. But I hope I will have left some financial help for my daughter. Also that I have left her with good memories and the wish to pay it all forward to her children.

AiY

servodude · #455438

I want the kids to miss me for a bit then realise they got as much as they needed from me while I was here

- biggest fear is that the wife sells my music gear for what I told her I paid for it

- sd

JohnB · #455439

Having both an Oxford and a Cambridge college named after me. There is a simple and minimal change to do that ....

UncleEbenezer · #455442

It would be great if my music could live on.

More realistically, I shall leave no more than a faint memory in the Clacks. Maybe if society becomes a little more sensible in my remaining years, my mortal remains might get consumed by someone more attractive than worms and less ridiculously wasteful than fire.

nimnarb · #455446

Interesting question and I have never given this any thought, not once. Which leads me to my main concern at present. Cremation or burial!!! Dread the thought to both frankly. Now if I felt that I was a person of importance to be remembered, perhaps I should be put on ice and brought back in a thousand years. Is this even feasible or science fiction? Then again, also dread to think what if there is anything left on our planet I would we waking up to!! :idea:

Dod101 · #455450

nimnarb wrote:Interesting question and I have never given this any thought, not once. Which leads me to my main concern at present. Cremation or burial!!! Dread the thought to both frankly. Now if I felt that I was a person of importance to be remembered, perhaps I should be put on ice and brought back in a thousand years. Is this even feasible or science fiction? Then again, also dread to think what if there is anything left on our planet I would we waking up to!!

Thinking of the planet, cremation for me. Apart from anything else, in the south at least, you are running out of space to bury anyone.

Dod

UncleEbenezer · #455468

Dod101 wrote:Thinking of the planet,

Food, forsooth! We may be more mutton (or even old boots) than lamb, but a sufficient cooking process deals with that.

If humans are still to squeamish to honour your memory themselves, then petfood donated to your local rescue centre.

servodude · #455474

UncleEbenezer wrote:
Dod101 wrote:Thinking of the planet,

Food, forsooth! We may be more mutton (or even old boots) than lamb, but a sufficient cooking process deals with that.

If humans are still to squeamish to honour your memory themselves, then petfood donated to your local rescue centre.

No one is suggesting Soylent Green!
Though if the "feed the people to the animals" movement takes hold... who knows!
"Make room! Make room!"

-sd

bungeejumper · #455479

How do I want remembered? Well, to be, I suppose, or maybe not to be?

That, I suppose, is the question.

BJ

dealtn · #455494

Clariman wrote:When the time comes and you leave this world, what kind of legacy do you want to leave - if any?

None is fine with me.

#455506

Just to be clear, my question was s general one and nothing to do with being remembered on the site!

#455529

Thanks for your thoughts. What prompted this question was that I was asking myself why I feel motivated to do some specific things. I don't believe in any after-life so when I'm gone, I'm gone. However, I believe that we each leave something to the world through our genes or influence we have had on other people - and that's a nice thought. And that's enough for me.

I have 2 publishing projects on the go at the moment which are important to me. One is a small scale self-publishing project which earns about £20-£30 a month. I'm not doing it for the money, but having produced something for my own use, I want it to be out there for others to use. I could give it away free but I learned many years ago that people don't appreciate free stuff as much as if they had paid for it. I make a small charge, so someone has to decide it is worth it for them. I'm also aware that the copyright will remain for 70 years after my death, so I do need to make provision for who that passes to and who gets a tiny income from it. Grandchildren would seem the obvious people and I quite like that idea.

The other is writing an article for a peer-reviewed journal based on some research I did a few years ago. This is important for me for different reasons. At one point I thought I might undertake an academic career but decided against it - and have no regrets. However, there has always been a bit in me that would like to know if I could have done it. So having an article published ticks a box for me. And the idea that someone might cite it in their future work flatters my ego.

Thinking about it, the former isn't about legacy - those items are things I wrote for myself, but the copyright post-mortem makes one think about beyond one's own life. The journal article is more about ticking the box of "I could have done it" but again I am aware that it could live on after me - if folk think it is any good. It is in quite a niche area so it could make an impact.

Clariman

pje16 · #455554

I will be leaving a chunk of cash to 3 hospitals,
Great Ormond Street who fixed me twice when I was 5
Royal Free in Hampstead who saved my life 55 years later and
Harefield who gave me a new lease of life
No I don't wards or such like named after me
just knowing now that I am doing that is enough
after all when I'm gone what will I know about it?

UncleEbenezer · #455565

Clariman wrote:Just to be clear, my question was s general one and nothing to do with being remembered on the site!

Here we have precedent, with a well-liked and respected Fool (PD, of course). Before him there was - I forget the name.

But that legacy is pretty-much limited to the time we who knew him in Fooldom (here and TMF) are around to remember. The nearest to a lasting legacy arising from it will be insofar as his contributions turn up when googling something. If indeed that lasts any longer than our individual memories.

BobbyD · #455568

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

- Woody Allen

scrumpyjack · #455571

At that point, I don't think I'd be too bothered!

pje16 · #455575

Thats reminds me of the old chestnut

Young Boy: I don't want to live to be 90
Great Grandad: try saying that again when you're 89 :lol:

The Lemon Fool

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