Venting No one will remember us in a hundred or so years time

[StevieNixs]

This is why I find this preservation of life thing so weird.
Go to any graveyard -especially the church ones. Who cares, thinks about or visits the graves of the people there who have died in 1900 or 1876 or whatever? No one.
All we will be is an entry in the Ancestry DNA website.
Do you know the names of your relatives who lived 300/400 years ago? Probably not and this is what we will end up being unless you are someone like Shakespeare or Hemingway.
I am not saying we are worthless. I am just saying we will all be very distant memories at some point.

 

[ClownMe]

This is why id rather be cremated and have my ashes spread somewhere as opposed to being buried in a cemetery, I want to be completely forgotten from history because I know that nobody would even visit my grave anyway. The reality is, after the instant shock of your death wears off, no matter who you are or how important you were to someone, you will be forgotten because life requires us to move on with our lives or be left behind.

 

[Ken Ough]

That's why anyone who appeal to the future should be put in their place. What we all want is a current pleasure/satisafaction.
No sane person desires to be a sisyphus for the sake of future generations or our hypothetical future selves

 

[WaaaghEnjoyer]

I wouldn't say that "no one" cares about the graves of random people from the past. If the graves also had short descriptions of their lives and deaths, then I'd be intrigued. It's interesting from a historical point of view.

Likewise, there is still a chance that anyone might become relevant in the far future due to writing a message or filming a video which would reveal things about life in 2021 to the people from 4021. Will it happen to everyone? Probably not, and either way you'll be dead if that happens.

 

[MBY85]

Nobody remember me now either, and I am still alive

 

[suisuiforum]

I wouldn't say that "no one" cares about the graves of random people from the past. If the graves also had short descriptions of their lives and deaths, then I'd be intrigued. It's interesting from a historical point of view.

Likewise, there is still a chance that anyone might become relevant in the far future due to writing a message or filming a video which would reveal things about life in 2021 to the people from 4021. Will it happen to everyone? Probably not, and either way you'll be dead if that happens.

Same, I think it's interesting to ponder over the lives of people from the past, like some sort of sonder for them. However, it's nothing more than an ephemeral thought if there's no other significance, as callous as that may sound.

Personally, I prefer if people didn't remember me, neither how I lived nor how I died.

 

[socrates]

It's true that most of us will never end up in a history book, and we will be forgotten in a sense, but I don't really care. Weather or not I'm remembered in 500 years or not doesn't effect me, it doesn't lessen the effect I have on people, or the achievements I've made. Plus not being remembered has it perks. Would you want some rando posting things on forums in the future with your name and picture.

 

[SleepDealer]

I never understood the appeal of being remembered.

 

[Seiba]

Even if "you" are remembered it wouldn't be you regardless. Just an idealization -- look at Ian Curtis for an example. The truth is we're largely alone in life, experience it alone, and will die alone regardless of any fame or lack therefore of. Regardless, I can think people preserve life not on the basis of remembering of it, but because of believing an inherent moral to living and dying without any say of your autonomy.

 

[FuneralCry]

Yes, most of us are likely to be completely forgotten eventually. I think in hundreds of years time, for the most part the only people who are likely to be remembered are those who have made some sort of impact on the world/created something famous. I want my existence to be erased from the memories of others, I want to completely disappear. Our lives are temporary and essentially pointless, or at least mine is very pointless. It is existing for the sake of it. Therefore it frustrates me that I have to exist and suffer in the first place.

 

[Soulless Angel]

Banksy
"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time" is a quote attributed to Banksy. A large segment of the public still feels that one dies twice.