How will people remember you?

[02ducky]

If you were to die today, how would people remember you?

Honest question, I been thinking about that for awhile for some reason... the topic has made me want to change some things about my life and some of the negative stuff everybody gets in a habbit of doing.

[Great-Kazoo]

No one will know till 2 - 3 weeks after i'm gone. Being cremated they will not be able to see a body to make sure i'm dead.

1/2 will mourn, the other 1/2 will celebrate.

[Ah Pook]

Some will. Some won't.

Not really caring which.

[cstone]

After I'm gone, I'm pretty certain I won't care.

In a way, death is like retirement. Regardless of what type of employee you were, about a year after you are gone, very few will remember you were ever there. Someone else will go through your stuff, toss most of it out and divide up the rest.

Do your best. Have integrity. Be content.

[gnihcraes]

Be nice, do good. I hope to be remembered as a good person, fun, goofy, funny, caring, smart etc.

A few will be glad I'm gone, that is their problem not mine.

A few major medical events and you think about things much differently.

[Gman]

My rewards are not in this world and my time here is temporary.

[Rooskibar03]

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[XC700116]

A few will remember me well, and the rest I could honestly care less.

[rondog]

Pretty sure there won't be a statue erected for me.....

[Fentonite]

Some will remember me fondly, and some with disdain. I think they're both wrong.

Those who remember me with ambivalence, probably saw me the clearest.

[Bailey Guns]

"Remember that one guy? What was his name?"

"Oh, yeah...that guy. What the hell was his name?"

[Alpha2]

Oh, they'll name colleges after me, erect statues, the usual. Then, in about 100-200 years or so, they'll get all PC and rename the schools, tear down the statues, re-write history, and I'll fade into obscurity.

Or not.

[StagLefty]

I hope to be remembered well but the only memory that's important to me is my son's. Hopefully he'll remember me with thankful thoughts.

[hobowh]

A note engraved on a bench in the cemetery where my grand father Is buried says. " here i sat but now I'm gone I left my name to carry on, those who knew it knew me well, those who didn't can go to he!!".
For me I hope to be remembered as someone that did what he could when prob arose, as a good friend, son, father, and husband. There are those that will be happy to see me go, but they are the ones that got in the way of the list above. So frankly I don't see them as a loss.

[Jer]

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[cstone]

My rewards are not in this world and my time here is temporary.

We are strangers in a strange land.

This life is our time to wander in the wilderness before we return home; to the place that has been prepared for us.

Be safe.

[ray1970]

I'm going to be surprised if more than three or four people even show up to my funeral. The few people who actually know me will most likely pass on before I do.

I do take comfort in knowing that my two step kids (who I pretty much raised) will probably remember me fondly for the rest of their days.

[Gcompact30]

How will they remember me [facepalm][dig][Beer][Beer][blah-blah][Beer]

[vossman]

As many others have said, I don't care.

[jerrymrc]

Remember the guy with all those old Pontiac's? "Whats a Pontiac?" Here, look. "Whats that?" a steering wheel......... I see me getting a ticket for "Driving" a car before I die.[panic]

[BladesNBarrels]

who was the biggest celebrity in 1563 and what did they do for a living? What did they look like?

One was Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland. He was Captain-general of the cavalry at the siege of St Quentin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_St._Quentin_%281557%29) under Mary I of England (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England). Under Elizabeth I (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England) he served successfully and she made him Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire and Rutland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland), Knight of the Garter and President of the North (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_North). Not long before his premature death he completed the building of Belvoir Castle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvoir_Castle).

His tomb, in the centre of the chancel next to that of his father, is of alabaster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster) and considered unique. The effigies lie beneath a decorated example of an Elizabethan dining table on heavy carved legs, suggesting an attempt to represent a communion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist) table. Earl Henry is depicted in armour of conventional pattern except that the breast plate is made up of laminated plates. He wears a coronet and his head is supported on a tilt-heaume. He is wearing a chain nearly reaching his thighs, and the Order of the Garter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter) is on the left leg. He holds a closed book in his right hand and a sword in his left. At his feet is a hornless unicorn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn). His wife, Margaret, also wears a coronet and is dressed in the style of the time, with an ermine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermine)-trimmed mantle. Her head rests on a scroll and her feet on a lion.


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Just Sayin'

[ray1970]

I have a feeling you've already gotten a ticket or two for "driving" a car, Jerry.
[Awesom]

[OtterbatHellcat]

Man, he was strange once in a while, but damn he made me laugh sometimes. Good guy to know.

[ray1970]

Man, he was strange once in a while, but damn he made me laugh sometimes. Good guy to know.
The question was what would people remember about you. Not what you'd remember about some other guy.
[Coffee]

[Irving]

I'll be remembered for as long as there is a chance money can be made from my name.

Which is the long way of saying, "I'll be remembered by debt collectors."

[Danimal]

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[BushMasterBoy]

I will be remembered for saying "Obama is an asshole".

[Alpha2]

I'm going to be surprised if more than three or four people even show up to my funeral. The few people who actually know me will most likely pass on before I do.

I do take comfort in knowing that my two step kids (who I pretty much raised) will probably remember me fondly for the rest of their days.

Anyone that can say about step-kids is a modern hero in my eyes. Kudos to you my friend.

[Alpha2]

I will be remembered for saying "Obama is an asshole".


See? Now that's what I'd say. But my trophy wife, she will be remembered for saying "he's a ...
traitor
muslim
socialist
communist
cop-hater
anti-American
instigator-in-chief
pathological liar

I don't argue with her. There is abundant proof of all of it. And, she's my trophy wife, so there's that!

[SideShow Bob]

Bob ? Bob who ? You know, Bob the [ahole] !

[brutal]

Bob ? Bob who ? You know, Bob the [ahole] !

I was thinking Chainsaw Bob. ROFL

[OtterbatHellcat]

*snickers*

[WETWRKS]

A relative of ours was (probably still is) concerned about that they will be forgotten once gone...my father mentioned to him that we are all about 2 generations away from being forgotten. Your children will remember you as will most likely your grandkids. Great grandkids probably won't...or at least will barely know you....following them it is all just written history of you. With the emerging computer era less and less written history is being kept within families and a lot of videos are not kept yet because of a lack of permanent storage memory.

There is a lot historically that will be known about this era but there will be a decided lack of info on a more personal level.

[hatidua]

My ego does not require the existence of a legacy. I'm quite confident that I won't be remembered.

[kidicarus13]

we are all about 2 generations away from being forgotten. Your children will remember you as will most likely your grandkids. Great grandkids probably won't...or at least will barely know you....

And the trinkets that you pass down will eventually be sold for about 1/5 of their value to help someone that never knew you put a down-payment on a new car, support an addiction, or pay alimony. But it won't matter to you because you'll be dead.

[Irving]

Even with you guys still around, I remember most of you by whatever is your current avatar.

[Monky]

I think most people will be relieved when I'm gone..

[Duman]

Well, personally I don't care what they say or think now, let alone after I've shuffled off this mortal coil.

After I'm gone, let them surprise me.

[gnihcraes]

I must say that I've known several of my great grandparents and have some memory of them. Lots of family documentation and photos that go many generations back.

[Guylee]

When I am gone, the world will tumble into madness.