Anyone scared of dying without leaving your mark in human history?

desires said:
As soon as you die you'll wake up elsewhere. If we're just big bags of atoms then at some point in the infinite future your current configuration will reappear, although it could be the year eight hundred and two thousand, seven hundred and one.
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I've always struggled with this. Since my life is no particularly different to anyone else's, e.g, I haven't done anything different to what people before me have done, or what people will do it feels kinda pointless without making a mark and creating a legacy, which would make my existence mean something......
 
Well if that's the case, the quote from Benjamin Franklin might help you - "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
 
After my failed suicide attempt I began to wonder if maybe there was a reason for me still being alive and I have tried a few times to start writing a book but I am never happy with the result.

Now I've got ANNO 2070 book is going to have to wait.


Maybe I am meant to become World Champion ANNO 2070 player?
 
LordSplodge said:
Paperback has only been 'live' on Amazon for a day or so but I have sold some. Sold quite a few Kindle versions of my books and stories and less so on the Apple iBookStore.

I'm not doing this to give up my day-job (probably a good thing I'd be eating bread and water right now) but as an outlet of my creative side that doesn't get used during the 8 hours I'm at work.

It's nice to know my work will outlive me though, but that's not too important. Seeing your name on a paperback sold on the worlds biggest bookstore does have quite a nice feel to it though.
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Good on you.

Out of interest did you self publish the paperback or has someone picked you up?
 
NinetyOne said:
Something I've always worried about is living my life and dying without doing anything meaningful that benefits society in the long term.

Maybe I'm just crazy..
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Kids, if you have them, you left your mark and contributed to a possible person who would have done something grandeur.
 
I met a traveler from an antique land...

Not really tbh.

Like Carl Sagan says ultimately all of human history is utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things so wanting to make a mark in it seems also insignificant.

The human race will carry on regardless.

When you think about it in this context all that really matters is the here and now.

Mostly I worry about treating other people well and being happy.
 
Before I die I'm going to commission a statue of myself and make sure it is placed deep in woodland somewhere or at the bottom of a lake, for someone to find one day and go "wtf?"
 
Horse Pop said:
I met a traveler from an antique land...

Not really tbh.

Like Carl Sagan says ultimately all of human history is utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things so wanting to make a mark in it seems also insignificant.

The human race will carry on regardless.

When you think about it in this context all that really matters is the here and now.

Mostly I worry about treating other people well and being happy.
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The here and now encompasses all time, whether you can relate to it or not, a pebble is always destined to diminish until its nothing but particles and floats to the bottom of the ocean to begin reconstitution, how does that relate to now because we know it will, because it has.

;)

In less douchey terms, we may be insignificant to the whole, but we are apart of it nonetheless and we must insure the whole continues to function, for our continual survival, the only constant in nature i believe we must uphold ourselves.
 
I'm worried about not fulfilling my own potential.

Pathetically, it's this worry that holds me back from doing just that by manifesting itself as a fear of failure.

Maybe it's just time to accept failure in it's many guises and get on with living through them.

Destroy your ego.
 
I am more worried about not continuing the family name. my dad is an only child and if i dont have kids then a very traditional Scottish family name will end.
 
i couldn't give a rats arse if I'm remembered but it is nice to know that people in the near future will be quoting my work and building upon my research in the coming years
 
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