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what would you be remembered for? What would people say at your eulogy? Would the world mourn your loss? Erect a statue in your honor? Or forget about you in an instant?

"He saw the light, and put on sunglasses"

Depends upon the size of the bang I went out with.

I doubt anyone would show up, honestly.

Does it matter? Worrying about your reputation is a waste of time, in life and death.

Meh, don't know, don't care.

How should I know? Ask the people in my life.

I woudlnt care cause I am dead dead

When I was younger, I wanted to be famous for something. President of the United States? A famous sportswriter? Something.

After facing my own mortality two years ago, I just want to be remembered as someone who made a difference in his part of the world and someone who treated others the way they would want to be treated.

I would like to be remembered as "That guy". That's about it. My gravestone (If I have one) doesn't even have to say my name. Just "That guy".

I would like to be remembered as "That guy". That's about it. My gravestone (If I have one) doesn't even have to say my name. Just "That guy".

"He came. He saw. He gave the shocker in the background of everyones pictures while wearing the tshirt of the band he was seeing."?

"He came. He saw. He gave the shocker in the background of everyones pictures while wearing the tshirt of the band he was seeing."?Maybe, but it doesn't even have to be a reference to anything. Just "That guy".

I have thought about this for a long time since I have been a teenager. Maybe it is one of the reasons I got into security (assisted old man getting run over by transport, provided first aid to man pushed down 20 stairs by a bus stop) and looking forward to a career in law enforcement.

But like the fifth poster said. You are dead so you are not really going to know now are you. All you can hope for is that the people who do show up to your funeral don't dwell on your death but remember the good times.

Like my favorite rappe Tupac Shakur says

"Life Goes On"

no matter if your dead or not.

I have a certain thing for being remembered, even if it is only by a few people. Even though you aren't around to know about it, in a way it's our only shot at immortality.

I don't know about tomorrow, but Murphy's Law would probably like to leave me with something like this:

"Fergi America is a hero to the world. Her successful efforts at eliminating aging made 'death of old age' a thing merely to be remembered in history books.

Too bad she was so busy yelling 'YES' that she didn't see the truck."

My god, I'd expect tons of people mourning, and they'd all say how honest and rude and how talented a photographer I was.

But I'm not ready to die, there's still more alcohol to drink, and more drugs to experience.

You know, in years past I might have said something bitter or scornful about no one showing up to my cremation, which I think people should get to watch just like they do a burying, but my new job has given me a fresh perspective. Because you know what makes you look like you were a totally awesome person in life? 25 five-year-olds bawling in little suits and dresses at your memorial service. Leaving teddy bears. It would be morbidly adorable!

I expect someone to say "Wow, I didn't even know he was still alive!"

And someone else to smack them in the head and say "Well, he's not, now!"

i would be quickly forgotten, and glad of it, however, my pichers on the net, plus my bbs'ing, is undoubtedly imortalized somewhere, at least among those who may have been moved to download whatever they may have seen fit of it, to add to their screen savers, print out to throw darts at, whatever.

its not what i'm remembered for that matters, its what, however subtle it might be, the contribution of my priorities to the cultural gestalt, the positive ones, as hopefully at least a simple majority of them are, is what i can die gratified to have had the fortune to contribute to.

what would you be remembered for? What would people say at your eulogy? Would the world mourn your loss? Erect a statue in your honor? Or forget about you in an instant?

Forgotten.

Eh, I doubt all that many people would know, or that a large portion of those who would know would particularly care. But, as others have said, I would be dead, so it would not be my concern, since, if there is an afterlife, I'd have more pressing problems to deal with, and if there isn't, I'd have none at all.

When I die, Ill be reborn in six years and the apocalypse begins.

Wait. Shit. Gave too much away.

I'll die six years after KoL returns when the Apocalypse ends. :)

i would be quickly forgotten, and glad of it, however, my pichers on the net, plus my bbs'ing, is undoubtedly imortalized somewhere, at least among those who may have been moved to download whatever they may have seen fit of it, to add to their screen savers, print out to throw darts at, whatever.

its not what i'm remembered for that matters, its what, however subtle it might be, the contribution of my priorities to the cultural gestalt, the positive ones, as hopefully at least a simple majority of them are, is what i can die gratified to have had the fortune to contribute to.

heh, all this stuff is definitely being archived somewhere, apart from the servers used, but that doesn't mean they can put the two together, the real person with text. If they can, that's creepy.

I'll die six years after KoL returns when the Apocalypse ends. :)

I'm surprised you won't cause your own first. After all, who else can ensure that the world will be ended by means of a good pieing?

I'm surprised you won't cause your own first. After all, who else can ensure that the world will be ended by means of a good pieing?

Who says it isn't mine? :D

If I were going to die tomorrow, then I would do crazy shit that would normally kill me and then die. I would be remembered as "that fool who tried to kill himself by cyanide capsule, poison injection, shotgun to the face, machine gunned to the stomach, pistol to the heart, rifle to the head, thrown out a passenger plane at 20,000 feet, get released from twenty thousand leagues under the sea, nuked several times, thrown off Everest, and then drowned." Yeah.

I have to come to find it strange that people feel they must be remembered or have a purpose. Nihilism- Thats how i roll

My wife and immediate family would mourn my passing.

My professional community would remember some of my academic writings (particularly a book I wrote in Australia), my membership of the board of directors of one of our professional societies, and my several years editing the newsletter of the same society.

Nothing in that previous sentence implies any real sense of immortality, but at least I'll have made some sort of positive and constructive contribution to my chosen professional career.

what would you be remembered for? What would people say at your eulogy? Would the world mourn your loss? Erect a statue in your honor? Or forget about you in an instant?

remembered for: about nuffink.
eulogy: not used here, unless for people who get solemn State funerals
world mourning: lol
statue: no please, I always said no tomb for me, statues are only worse.

Only my closest relatives and friends will remember me for some time. then again, will I care?

NO, because I'll be dead. I'll be no more. Finis.

Mortuus est, el mangia pu polenta! :tongue::tongue::tongue:

Dunno.

'He was....umm...yeah....great person.....'

Funerals are always positive in their display of the person, regardless of acts.

I wonder if anybody that knew me could get through my eulogy without laughing...

as long as my family doesnt go to the funeral so they can do the happy dance at being shut of me, im satisfied.

what would you be remembered for?

I won't care because I'll be dead.

What would people say at your eulogy?

My opinions are well known, so I wouldn't have one.

Would the world mourn your loss?

The "world" would be an even more pathetic place if it did - the hypocrisy inherent in mourning the "loss" of me, and not countless others, would irk me, were I not dead and thus no longer existent.

I won't care because I'll be dead.



My opinions are well known, so I wouldn't have one.



The "world" would be an even more pathetic place if it did - the hypocrisy inherent in mourning the "loss" of me, and not countless others, would irk me, were I not dead and thus no longer existent.

Would you mind if we buried you vertically feet-up? That'd be fun. :)

Would you mind if we buried you vertically feet-up? That'd be fun. :)

I would be dead and not capable of minding anything one did with the carcass that was once me, but I doubt I'd be buried. Most people in this country are cremated, and more eco-friendly freeze-dry ultrasonic shattering is on the rise.

I would be dead and not capable of minding anything one did with the carcass that was once me, but I doubt I'd be buried. Most people in this country are cremated, and more eco-friendly freeze-dry ultrasonic shattering is on the rise.

Ooh! That could be entertaining too if done right. :)

Ooh! That could be entertaining too if done right. :)

If done wrong, as well.

That one kid who really kicked the crap out of those other kids. Ya, that crazy guy. You remember him?

"I told him to throw the grenade, not the pin."

My god, I'd expect tons of people mourning, and they'd all say how honest and rude and how talented a photographer I was.

But I'm not ready to die, there's still more alcohol to drink, and more drugs to experience.

Ride on, brother.

If done wrong, as well.

I'm reasonably sure the two are one and the same.

what would you be remembered for? What would people say at your eulogy? Would the world mourn your loss? Erect a statue in your honor? Or forget about you in an instant?

Well, I would hope those I love forget about me. I wouldn't want them to hurt.
I don't think I'd be generally remembered, I wouldn't know for what.

"He always had a cigarette on hand when I needed one, and was kind of like Hunter S. Thompson without the drugs."

I did some other shit but that's about it.

"Couldn't think of a snappy one-liner."

Well...Other than my immediate family/friends....theyd probly forget me in an instant....

I have to come to find it strange that people feel they must be remembered or have a purpose. Nihilism- Thats how i roll

I'm surprised you even care ;)

If death is oblivion, then indeed what's the point in worrying? And worrying now about what people might say about you in the future when you won't care is doubly insane!

However, if there was an afterlife, I would come back and haunt people for shits and giggles.

My gravestone would say this:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

I woudlnt care cause I am dead dead

i'd come back as a zombie and eat the people who didn't show to my funeral, personally

I want a Viking funeral, people can forget me but I'll be damned if they're going to forget the last party I throw.

My gravestone would say this:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

That is a great poem.

If I died tomorrow... I know I would be with the Lord in Heaven.

If I died tomorrow... I know I would be with the Lord in Heaven.

That's a little presumptious.

That's a little presumptious.

Not if you are Christian it isn't, and I am.

I make no assumptions of my death. All I know is that there are some who would feel pain from it.

Not if you are Christian it isn't

Actually if one is Christian, that's even more presumptuous. Your cruel, little deity likes hubris even less than Zeus...

I make no assumptions of my death. All I know is that there are some who would feel pain from it.

You have a detonator connected to a heart monitor set to go off if your heart stops and wired to explosives in all the major population centres of the UK you say?

You are one sick puupy.

You have a detonator connected to a heart monitor set to go off if your heart stops and wired to explosives in all the major population centres of the UK you say?

You are one sick puupy.

Oh god you just made me crack up.

*Imagines everyone in the UK blowing up to this (http://www.imeem.com/randomsanity/music/OTo9n5tz/tchaikovsky_1812_overture/)

Actually if one is Christian, that's even more presumptuous. Your cruel, little deity likes hubris even less than Zeus...

Believe what you wish, personally I think Zeus is a fairy Tale.

Believe what you wish, personally I think Zeus is a fairy Tale.

But the cosmic Jewish carpenter who is his own father and that can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from you soul that is present in all of humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree is not a fairy tale to you? Right... because that makes perfect sense... as opposed to deities living on mount Olympus and bearing full grown women from their migraine-stricken skulls, that they split open with an axe, somewhere in between raping Europa in the form of a bull and... well, generally raping other women in the form of various animals and meteorological phenomena.

I much prefer the latter if only for its X-rated content, thankyouverymuch.

I don't know for what would I be remembered for. I hope I'm remembered fondly, that's all I can say.

As for what people would say at my eulogy... that I was a good person, maybe. I don't know. This is tough.

I know I would live in the minds of those who loved me, until they were also gone. Then I guess I would pass from memory.

I doubt anyone would show up, honestly.

this. My friends would turn up late and pissed if at all and I'd probably get a gloomy Christian funeral (buried in Lowerstoft *shudders*) regardless of my wishes :mad:

I figure I'd make a few people cry and maybe be brought up like a childhood friend every 10 years or so when nobody can be arsed to make the tea

But the cosmic Jewish carpenter who is his own father and that can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from you soul that is present in all of humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree is not a fairy tale to you? Right... because that makes perfect sense... as opposed to deities living on mount Olympus and bearing full grown women from their migraine-stricken skulls, that they split open with an axe, somewhere in between raping Europa in the form of a bull and... well, generally raping other women in the form of various animals and meteorological phenomena.

I much prefer the latter if only for its X-rated content, thankyouverymuch.


Jesus is real whether you believe it or not. I know you have freewill and all. But if you abuse your freewill there is a tough price to pay.

Jesus is real whether you believe it or not. I know you have freewill and all. But if you abuse your freewill there is a tough price to pay.

So God's that kid on the playground who gives you a cookie then punches you in the face for eating his cookie? Nice to know.

People would be sad, that's all I know.

My epitaph would be "wow, that was pointless"

But if you abuse your freewill there is a tough price to pay.

like getting b& for being gravedigger and such

They would say something like. Truly Blessed what are kidding me he was just here like a minute ago.

Jesus is real whether you believe it or not. I know you have freewill and all. But if you abuse your freewill there is a tough price to pay.

Magical Jesus is about as real as the aforementioned Olympian Gods.

I'd be remembered by my family and friends. That's about it.

Magical Jesus is about as real as the aforementioned Olympian Gods.

What about the Mighty Thor?

http://www.samruby.com/Heroes/Thor/ThorBright.gif

......I'd be dead, so I wouldn't really care.

Magical Jesus is about as real as the aforementioned Olympian Gods.

Oh, ye of little (in this case no) faith!

what would you be remembered for?

Different things by different people.

What would people say at your eulogy?

None would be held.

Would the world mourn your loss?

The world does not "mourn", let alone be anything but glad that another human has stopped polluting it. And if you mean "humanity", well, pretty much the same thing...

I think everyone would say to themselves "Wow he finally did bite it." considering I should have been dead three times by now.

I'd probably be missed, I'm always a bucket of fun at parties.

Everybody would be surprised by my suicide. Me vs. The NYC subway.

what would you be remembered for? What would people say at your eulogy? Would the world mourn your loss? Erect a statue in your honor? Or forget about you in an instant?

1: My little dudes. Perhaps a few other things.
2: They would sing "Bulbous Bouffant".
3: The world doesn't care now and likely won't care then.
4: They'd make a statue of an erection in my honour.
5: They'd remember me over instant coffee, for reasons of equitable depth and significance.

3: The world doesn't care now and likely won't care then.


We care. A lot.

It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.

We care. A lot.

It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.Wow, Faith No More, Mike Rowe AND Ratt all in the same post!
*blushes*

If it weren't for my debts, less of the world would care, i'm sure. :)

Some would remember me, some would not.

Wow, Faith No More, Mike Rowe AND Ratt all in the same post!
*blushes*


I'm sure I don't have to explain to you, of all people, that it would be spoken in Chuck Moseley's voice.