On Topic Discussion When you are gone, what . . .

[NotHardUp1]

One day we will no longer walk the earth.

If you could be remembered for only one thing -- an action, a trait, a deed -- what would it be.

Only one.

 

[Cormac135]

The man who set the nukes off.

Alternatively i'd like a disease named after me.

 

[NotHardUp1]

The man who set the nukes off.

Sorry, we have to accept your first answer; however, I've spoken with the Fates and they're willing to name a condition after you for the duration of your natural life. It will be the forgetting of rules, but the honorific will fade after you're gone, and be forgotten.

 

[jaynoel]

Maybe be remembered for the way I died: Shot to death at the age of 110 by a jealous boyfriend.
;^}
Seriously though, i'd just like to be remembered fondly by the people who knew me.

 

[seven2go]

I won't elaborate but "The day the music died".

 

[medic1]

Falling in love.

 

[Charon]

Deviating away from what is considered "normal" and "acceptable."

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

One day we will no longer walk the earth.

If you could be remembered for only one thing -- an action, a trait, a deed -- what would it be.

Only one.

We won't even be remembered.

 

[NotHardUp1]

We won't even be remembered.

That would be quite variable from man to man, but I fondly remember literally hundreds of friends, most of whom are older and gone, and they are strong memories. I think I could list them and a single trait or deed would come up for every one.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ If you die, who will remember?

 

[NotHardUp1]

Not everyone was old. I have some friends younger than I am.

And it's not if, but when.

 

[Vannie]

Kindness...laughter.

If I die on Jub….I know some of you will make cabbage jokes

 

[Alistair]

I'll be remembered for being the only one that didn't make a cabbage joke at Vannie's expense.

 

[Alnitak]

About the only thing that will be preserved of any significance will be my published works on genealogy and history, and of course I expect some kind of gravestone, but those don't last more than a few centuries. We now live in an age where the acts and deeds of our lives are pretty well recorded by government entities and data miners.

 

[peeonme]

It's difficult to say, I think that my family will remember me as the one who could make it work.

 

[FPNY]

People will be saying thank goodness that asshat is gone...sheesh..what a dick.

 

[mikey3000]

I hope to be remembered for making people smile..so I want a huge fucking parade, every year, on the anniversary of me death.

 

[NotHardUp1]

That is what I want, minus the celebration that I'm dead and still dead each anniversary.

I have though about it, and I weighed whether intellect, virtue, or humor was my preferred legacy. Humor won. I don't think intelligence is inherently a virtue, and virtue isn't necessarily accompanied by an appealing personality. But when we remember someone who made us laugh all the time, we have a good feeling. I've been a comic since my senior year in high school, and in the work place, it has helped to turn often bleak jobs into bearable.

 

[dpnice]

I doubt that anyone will notice my death nor remember me.

For many years I have thought of having a tiny brass plaque put somewhere, just so my name is not completely forgotten.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I have no wish to be remembered by strangers, only those who knew me well.

If I did though, I'd leave a behest to something I valued, like a library, a botanic garden, or some favorite charity or university. Those are fairly enduring memorials that mean naught to the reader but the values they embody.