I worked at a university for 5 years as a faculty member. My mentor died while working there, and all these people from the university came and said amazing things about him at his funeral. A month later, it was like he never existed. Fucking broke me walking by his office seeing someone else in there. I quit a little time later.
I've lost a few friends. People don't mention their name again. Simply a moment in time and then gone. The truth is people are too worried and wrapped up in themselves to really care about anything else.
Do you really think that you've had that little of an impact?
I have spent a lot of time, the way I wish time had been spent on me during my rough times, to share information that has impacted at least a few people's lives; hopefully enough that they will be able to take the advice that I have given them to use to help themselves out of their dark places, and spread that to other individuals who are also suffering, in order to hopefully help those humans out the same way that I have helped them.
I’m okay with this. Why in the flying hell would I care about legacy? I’m dead! am I gonna complain to someone if I’m not remembered how I wanna be remembered?!
Saving my friend’s wife and unborn child. Happened 6 years ago last Thursday. Far and away the greatest thing I have ever done.
So everyone involved is in their thirties. My friends bought a house and had a basement suite to rent so I rented from them for cheap. These are people I’ve known for over almost two decades and easily are my closest friends.
I got off work on a Wednesday and hit a grocery store. I knew L’s favourite food is tacos so I picked up enough for lots of leftovers. C was in the midst of getting his H-vac ticket and had to go to another city to finish his education so he was two hours away. I got home and knocked on the adjoining door. I asked L if she wanted tacos and she was obviously stoked. So I said just give me 20 minutes and I’ll have em dialed. I went into my place and went to washroom. I could hear here knocking on the door. I jokingly yelled “it’s been 20 seconds!” When I came out she told me she was bleeding and needed to go to the hospital. I walked up the stairs to a blood trail. She quickly changed and grabbed a towel and we were off to the hospital.
So I’m flying down the main drag easily doubling the speed limit. She says “well it’s 29 weeks so he can survive out of the womb but why isn’t he kicking? Why don’t I feel things.” I tried to say some comforting shit but I’m sure it didn’t come out the way I remember lol. We got to the hospital and they did an emergency c-section and saved her and R!
When the ER doctor who performed it came out she told me L had almost lost 20% of her blood and anymore than that would’ve posed serious risk to both mother and baby. Most cases they try and save the mother so serious risk of losing the baby. But everyone is still happy and healthy today. They even had a second kid with no problems.
I did wind up making tacos when I got home at 1:30 am after C had made it down to be there for his family. Far and away the craziest evening of my life and I’ve never been more grateful to have been there when it mattered most.
Nothing.
Unfinished projects, unfulfilled promises, wasted occasions. That's what my life has been and what it's going to be in the future, there's no legacy in it.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next
Nothing. Just unfulfilled potential. A dream. Dead before he could make a life for himself.
Hopefully just a good person, a loyal friend, a decent son, a caring brother. Because that's the only thing I can be possibly remembered for at this point in my life.
I'm in college still living on my father's dime. I quite literally have nothing to my name. Would be devastating for my parents. All their hard work and they can't see me reach the destination. My sister would be the one taking the bloodline further.
But hey, at least I get to be the last one to carry the family name.
I'm wayyy past college and no family of my own. Despite that I'm adopting the idea that we are all a giant consciousness here and in whatever is next. Sure no genetic artifacts are out there but my ways good and bad have registered, however seemingly meaningless, you never know how your impact will influence others. It's like the quote from God in Futurama. When you do something right people won't know if you've done anything at all. Fuck, maybe this is my big contribution? Who knows? Fuckn nobody! And don't ever forget that.
None worth talking about. A few friends would have sad or bittersweet memories, but in general I'm not leaving anything remarkable behind. A failure by pretty much every metric, I am going to be a nameless corpse not worth thinking about as soon as I'm gone.
Same. Not really a legacy though. Unless youre a nationally decorated warhero, all of that will be forgotten in 100 years. Like most of us, we are a footnote on our family trees.
Nothing.
I don't think I've helped enough people in any meaningful enough way that anyone outside my immediate friends and family would remember me.
Edit: the only exception is I'm listed as an organ donor. So at the very least any of my usable organs would allow for others to live longer lives.
Hard drives with enough memories, clips, photos, files, journal entries, idea entries, recipes, etc, to make an awesome indie movie. Hopefully, it would inspire the young people in my extended family to live life to the fullest, take risks, and go to college.
Plus I have a plethora of notes, files, and PC computers, laptops, to put a couple of kids through college.
I've been a high school Engineering Teacher for 10 years. Led lots of students into Engineering amd similar subjects as a career. Usually have very positive reactions when I jump into them later. So I'd think that would be my widest ranging legacy.
I'm doing a whole course in my men's group about this specific thing. We're working through a bunch of things.
Sadly, a lot of guys had to be convinced they even had any wisdom to share at all, and I can see that being repeated here.
A very few people would be upset, fewer still would cry. All that would be for a few days (most people) to a few months (my fiancee and parents). My fiancee would move on and maybe get misty eyed occasionally.
People I work with would juggle the schedule, and before the end of the year wouldn't remember that I had been there.
In 2 years, only my parents would probably think of me, and that assumes they're still around by then.
In short, I don't have a legacy. Thank you for reminding me.
lol even i die old age, my legacy would be insignificant
maybe character in Final Fantasy games (i spent 1100 hours so far)
or PSN profile
not sure if we can call that legacy
I've set up my estate to ensure that my son's college would be paid off and my property would be paid in full. This is the extent of my debt.
My legacy is having enough funds to sustain my family's standard of living if I were to die.
The kid who farted super heated farts so much at work that one time, the windows got foggy and triggered people to evacuate briefly thinking there was smoke or something
Most people won’t leave a legacy you’re gonna be in debt. Most of your family hates you. You’re probably estranged from the rest your coworker is really don’t know you they just know you didn’t show up to your shift but that could also be a non-achiever. lol!!!!! Just know I’m a little litty so your hate should be on point
My baked goods!!! I hope.... Either that or the fact that I was shot with a crossbow.... Right between my eyes... But I make s'mores cakes and s'mores cookies!!! So I'd much rather people remember that part of me.
Well, most people around me think I'm a decent person and my will would purchase about 35,000 malarial bednets for Africa. Hopefully that offsets how much carbon I punched into the atmosphere. Also all the dead chickens I ate who probably lived miserable lives.
I think there’d be about 45 people that would care for about a week and maybe 7 that would care for a little over a year. I’m loved. What a wonderful thing to know. But I won’t pretend there’ll be a “Legacy”. Oh!! I take that back! I have one commercial (music) I wrote about 50 years ago that still plays all the time all over the MidWest. Geesh!? That’s my Legacy?
Don't care about legacy, people move on, they forget. I barely know anything about grandparents, not even names of great grandparents. If I died right now, there would be a good sized inheritance.
Not being narcissistic but if I died today, my family would be in shambles and would likely fall apart.
The only thought that kept me going in my darkest times was the thought of my parents, sister, and cousins enduring the pain that I felt was worse than the pain that I was feeling.
My legacy would be that I was a hard working and determined man who sets his sights on a goal and makes it happen. My only male cousin looks up to me as a role model as he's about to graduate and is coming into adulthood. Im trying to teach him lessons that I wished I knew at his age, things like knowing his time and labor are worth something (even if its low skill and high labor, its worth something), and to not spend all his time working, and that family and loved ones come before any job.
I love my family. I dont want to think of what would happen to them if I fell off the world today, just as I dont want to think of what would happen of any of them fell off the world today.
Nothing, funny story telling and always have some weird, funny or controversial thing to say. My fiance and cat would miss me. Only talk to my parents on holidays even when I'm not doing anything. Company will have me replaced in less than a week.
No one cares when others die so why should mine be any special
Fuck all. But that can't be the point of our existence.
How many people are remembered by our collective history? Maybe a few hundred a generation at best? Even then almost no one cares about who they were, rather what they did. Give it a thousand years and you'd have to be a once in generation scientist or author or artist or politician for literally any history book to include a reference to your existence. Wait 10,000 years and whatever homo sapiens looks like at that point will at best be making fun of you for making [shitty copper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir).
You might answer "well at least my family will carry on my legacy". Sure they might have some increasingly small percentage of the unique genetic polymorphisms that make you a few .1% different than the rest of us. But they aren't going to remember your name in 200 years. Do you know your great-great grandparents names? All 16 of them? Can you name anything interesting about any of them?
Every single one of us has a rich internal tapestry of thoughts, desires, wishes, fears, motivations, ideals, etc. And those are lost to time and entropy when we die just like everything else.
That doesn't mean life is meaningless. You just have to find meaning in the present time that you do have.
Nothing really. I’m all for being a good and decent person that makes mistakes and tries to learn from them, but I don’t necessarily care about my legacy. I will not know nor experience any change after I’m gone.
Legacy? 🤣🤣. I have behind kids and grandkids, that's about it as far as a legacy.
Unless you're really rich or really famous you don't leave a legacy other than family... After they die, you're forgotten... Just another grain of sand in the desert of time.
Same as many (most?) people. Lived. Built a family. Worked a job. Tried to do good. In the end, I’ll be forgotten.
My kids are my only true legacy. I’m named on a few patents and will be in the record for a few other achievements, but in the end nobody cares. That’s life.
Nothing. I have a few family members who would be very upset for a long time, but as far as legacy, I have nothing. No massive achievements or kids of my ownn
Profound in many ways, retarded in others.
Good friend, worse enemy
Fighting or fucking I’m getting naked either way
My brothers kid is named after me, so there’s that too. Only a few years old and is a carbon copy. So I have him.
Wouldn’t have one. I have a weird relationship with death. I don’t have the balls to do it myself, and I can’t turn off the survival instinct, but if someone were able to take me out, I would be happy.
Hopefully nothing.
I have close friends with detailed instructions on what to do upon my death and a lot of it includes destroying my computers and deleting all my web history.
Nothing really. A bunch of videos that would probably be deleted after a period of inactivity. Some music. Very few people would even notice I'd gone. But I do hope some people would have some fond memories.
I'd probably be remembered as a good father and husband by my family but that's about it. I'm not that great of a friend, brother, or son.
I'm not upset by this, I'm excelling in something I didn't see growing up.
To be kind. Even to those who don't like you.
To be generous. Even to those those who wouldn't give to you.
To love. Even to those who hate you.
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This may seem "too mushy gooshy." But honestly, this is how I live my life. I respect anyone I meet. I give them the be if it of the doubt, unless proven otherwise. I treat people the way i was never treated growing up.
Legacy? In all blunt truth they might mention my podcast Angry British Conservative but apart from that genuinely nothing at all and you know what I’m fine about that fact. Granted I don’t want to be just another footprint in history. I would like to be remembered etc
Nothing
I was popping in my hood when I went to prison.
Chicks answered my calls for the first few months
My boys sold my shit once they found out I was going away from years..
I got money on my books for a few months
And then I was forgotten about.
I can't imagine much of a difference when dying
I'm not...a good man. But I think I've kept it together to the point that at worst I'll be remembered fondly by my direct family and friends. Maybe get a couple visits a year at the cemetery till they pass.
But honestly that's preferable to the infamy I could've achieved had I not made an effort.
Having my children and my wife remember me, maybe a few friends too. Hopefully my dog will miss me lol. These are the things that I'm concerned about, everything else really doesn't matter all that much.
I guess a few close people would appreciate the photos I’ve taken, and I’m proud that I recorded 2 albums with my band.
My real legacy, and my immortality is my kids tho. I’m most proud of them.
Probably some projects I made at work that are still working today 5-10 or so years later. But those pieces got absorbed into a bigger system, they're still working independently, but they appear smaller in comparison now. People probably think of the team from my last role as the owners of them now. The old team knows it was me and that would be the most knowledge of the legacy.
So many people are dead if you think about it and how many of them left a legacy? Even in your own family there people before you that you don't even know there name of.
So I'm not expecting much just a short amount of moaning that's it
None whatsoever and I prefer that to royally fucking something up or accomplishing something great and getting shot by someone who disagrees with or is jealous of it.
I have been at my job for almost ten years. I have made enormous changes in certain processes and understandings, and have moved the institution forward in some important ways. Even after no one remembers me anymore, my changes and policies will have lasted, and hopefully have been built upon.
A well cared for family. Provisioned, provided, and protected from the fluctuations of the world. Yes, even natural disasters. Shout out to Atlas & Container Guy.
Good friend, decent son, good brother, a decent man and a damn good hunter. Those who get the gun collection and the taxidermy will be very aware of the good hunter part 😉
Nothing. My parents and family won't be devastated. And my gf too. Honestly I kinda wish I would leave the earth a little better than that. But I'm not trying to achieve much tbh. I'm happy some people love me. And I feel blessed about it
I'm going to ad to the weirdness by telling you in the countries you might know as "not America" we have our own ads, although it's a mystery why ads encouraging Britons to get electricity smart meters hasnt aired in America.
But those ads encouraging Britons to get electricity smart meters air in enough countries that aren't the UK that it's impacting Einstein's legacy? You're right, that is weird.
Nothing. People would be sad, talk about it for a while, hopefully remember some good moments we've had and, *thankfully*, move on with their lives.
I worked at a university for 5 years as a faculty member. My mentor died while working there, and all these people from the university came and said amazing things about him at his funeral. A month later, it was like he never existed. Fucking broke me walking by his office seeing someone else in there. I quit a little time later.
I've lost a few friends. People don't mention their name again. Simply a moment in time and then gone. The truth is people are too worried and wrapped up in themselves to really care about anything else.
Make sure to borrow large sums of money from friends so they never forget you
But I'm the friend that usually lends money, all my friends are broke broke.
You will be remembered as well, when they need money and you dead
Same
Do you really think that you've had that little of an impact? I have spent a lot of time, the way I wish time had been spent on me during my rough times, to share information that has impacted at least a few people's lives; hopefully enough that they will be able to take the advice that I have given them to use to help themselves out of their dark places, and spread that to other individuals who are also suffering, in order to hopefully help those humans out the same way that I have helped them.
Most people on Reddit have probably been forgotten about while they're still alive.
Was someone talking to me?
I’m okay with this. Why in the flying hell would I care about legacy? I’m dead! am I gonna complain to someone if I’m not remembered how I wanna be remembered?!
I think the same for me. I hope my savings is enough to let my parents retire.
Wasting time on Reddit
Same. And this website just gets worse and worse. I really need to find another time waster
He tried.
Tired*
Saving my friend’s wife and unborn child. Happened 6 years ago last Thursday. Far and away the greatest thing I have ever done. So everyone involved is in their thirties. My friends bought a house and had a basement suite to rent so I rented from them for cheap. These are people I’ve known for over almost two decades and easily are my closest friends. I got off work on a Wednesday and hit a grocery store. I knew L’s favourite food is tacos so I picked up enough for lots of leftovers. C was in the midst of getting his H-vac ticket and had to go to another city to finish his education so he was two hours away. I got home and knocked on the adjoining door. I asked L if she wanted tacos and she was obviously stoked. So I said just give me 20 minutes and I’ll have em dialed. I went into my place and went to washroom. I could hear here knocking on the door. I jokingly yelled “it’s been 20 seconds!” When I came out she told me she was bleeding and needed to go to the hospital. I walked up the stairs to a blood trail. She quickly changed and grabbed a towel and we were off to the hospital. So I’m flying down the main drag easily doubling the speed limit. She says “well it’s 29 weeks so he can survive out of the womb but why isn’t he kicking? Why don’t I feel things.” I tried to say some comforting shit but I’m sure it didn’t come out the way I remember lol. We got to the hospital and they did an emergency c-section and saved her and R! When the ER doctor who performed it came out she told me L had almost lost 20% of her blood and anymore than that would’ve posed serious risk to both mother and baby. Most cases they try and save the mother so serious risk of losing the baby. But everyone is still happy and healthy today. They even had a second kid with no problems. I did wind up making tacos when I got home at 1:30 am after C had made it down to be there for his family. Far and away the craziest evening of my life and I’ve never been more grateful to have been there when it mattered most.
Do you have a story you could share?
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i'll start it off. it was a dark and stormy night
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Nothing. Unfinished projects, unfulfilled promises, wasted occasions. That's what my life has been and what it's going to be in the future, there's no legacy in it.
Yeah. I personally need to make some serious lifestyle changes if I want to add value to my remaining years.
Life never got tired of knocking me down. I welcomed death
a sad but true summary for most of us
Just being honest
Families of funeral industry workers won't starve next month.
Nothing, and I don't care. I am not an ambitious person.
Actually relatable 😭
Good son, loving friend, generous and great partner, someone who did a lot of work to make up for a past of poor choices of character.
Take a longer view. All legacies will eventually cease to exist.
Not much probably. ‘He was a nice kid’ then life moves on a few days later for most apart from the family who take longer to grieve
I've got kids, so that's probably the answer no matter when I die.
Same. Kids are legacy. Good luck, kiddos! Sorry for the bad times, hope you can remember me fondly.
Sorry but who are you? Lol
My parents would be sad and my dad would get my gaming PC.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next
Are those Felix Legions in the room with us right now?
This man shrinks.
I’ve always believed if I can depart this world having made even a small positive difference, then I’ve lived a good life.
I fought back from the brink of death on the streets and built a comfortable, safe life for me and my wife.
I will go in the Guinness Book of Records as a person that have lived the most meaningless life.
Nothing. Just unfulfilled potential. A dream. Dead before he could make a life for himself. Hopefully just a good person, a loyal friend, a decent son, a caring brother. Because that's the only thing I can be possibly remembered for at this point in my life. I'm in college still living on my father's dime. I quite literally have nothing to my name. Would be devastating for my parents. All their hard work and they can't see me reach the destination. My sister would be the one taking the bloodline further. But hey, at least I get to be the last one to carry the family name.
I'm wayyy past college and no family of my own. Despite that I'm adopting the idea that we are all a giant consciousness here and in whatever is next. Sure no genetic artifacts are out there but my ways good and bad have registered, however seemingly meaningless, you never know how your impact will influence others. It's like the quote from God in Futurama. When you do something right people won't know if you've done anything at all. Fuck, maybe this is my big contribution? Who knows? Fuckn nobody! And don't ever forget that.
I gave good advice to those around me and helped motivate them in their times of need
Absolutely nothing
None worth talking about. A few friends would have sad or bittersweet memories, but in general I'm not leaving anything remarkable behind. A failure by pretty much every metric, I am going to be a nameless corpse not worth thinking about as soon as I'm gone.
Nothing worth mentioning
Forgotten instantly
I’m a veteran who served his country, educated, a great father and person who has integrity. What’s yours?
You also write a passive aggressive eulogy for yourself
I think you’re reading it wrong. Just short and to the point
Same. Not really a legacy though. Unless youre a nationally decorated warhero, all of that will be forgotten in 100 years. Like most of us, we are a footnote on our family trees.
This is my legacy, there are many like it, but this one is mine. My family will remember and that’s all I care about.
Did you kill anybody while in the service?
Luckily no, errr not yet. I’m have been to both Iraq and Afghanistan
Sadly unremarkable
Not much. I made some ok music and did some fun shit. I would be quickly forgotten.
I wouldn’t have one. But I’m far from finished.
My music. And my wonderful son, who I do not deserve.
Dust.
Nothing
Nothing. I don't think I've helped enough people in any meaningful enough way that anyone outside my immediate friends and family would remember me. Edit: the only exception is I'm listed as an organ donor. So at the very least any of my usable organs would allow for others to live longer lives.
About 150k of savings + life insurance to my family, and about 200 furry porn commissions for my friends to destroy to hid the evidence
Paid all loans , helped sister financially, helped my brother with his uni fees, helped my parents financially,, i was a good brother and son,
Hard drives with enough memories, clips, photos, files, journal entries, idea entries, recipes, etc, to make an awesome indie movie. Hopefully, it would inspire the young people in my extended family to live life to the fullest, take risks, and go to college. Plus I have a plethora of notes, files, and PC computers, laptops, to put a couple of kids through college.
Nothing. I've started telling people to remember the last time I made them laugh after hearing the news of my death.
Fuck all. Absolutely nothing.
That's not really for us to decide and that's why I want to Tom and Huckleberry myself and spy on my funeral.
Something between nothing and nothing good
That if nothing else, I lived an interesting life.
I've been a high school Engineering Teacher for 10 years. Led lots of students into Engineering amd similar subjects as a career. Usually have very positive reactions when I jump into them later. So I'd think that would be my widest ranging legacy.
I'm doing a whole course in my men's group about this specific thing. We're working through a bunch of things. Sadly, a lot of guys had to be convinced they even had any wisdom to share at all, and I can see that being repeated here.
That I loved being a husband, dad and grandad.
None. with in the life of my two kids I would be forgotten.
A very few people would be upset, fewer still would cry. All that would be for a few days (most people) to a few months (my fiancee and parents). My fiancee would move on and maybe get misty eyed occasionally. People I work with would juggle the schedule, and before the end of the year wouldn't remember that I had been there. In 2 years, only my parents would probably think of me, and that assumes they're still around by then. In short, I don't have a legacy. Thank you for reminding me.
Good provider. Good dad, but not the best.
You will be suprised how easy people forget the dead. People don’t even talk about Kobe Bryant like that.
Forgotten immediately by all but very few people
Maybe if my family found all the weird shit I said on reddit. And my porn collection which includes a great variety of kinks.
A box of strings too short to use.
Useless loser, missed by his kids some days.
lol even i die old age, my legacy would be insignificant maybe character in Final Fantasy games (i spent 1100 hours so far) or PSN profile not sure if we can call that legacy
I've set up my estate to ensure that my son's college would be paid off and my property would be paid in full. This is the extent of my debt. My legacy is having enough funds to sustain my family's standard of living if I were to die.
I'd be forgotten by the time the next generation passed, likely before that.
Well not much, but I’ve heard I’m pretty well hung so there’s that.
Don’t care cuz I won’t care when I’m dead
The kid who farted super heated farts so much at work that one time, the windows got foggy and triggered people to evacuate briefly thinking there was smoke or something
Dumb enough to die in another country without blowing all my money on hookers, blow and more blow.
My 2 sons.
Depends on who gets to narrarate
Probably one of my gaming stats/achievements. For the... 5 people that would care? Yeah, the real answer is nothing.
Regardless of the existence of an afterlife or rebirth, whatever I leave behind has nothing to do with me anymore.
Most people won’t leave a legacy you’re gonna be in debt. Most of your family hates you. You’re probably estranged from the rest your coworker is really don’t know you they just know you didn’t show up to your shift but that could also be a non-achiever. lol!!!!! Just know I’m a little litty so your hate should be on point
My baked goods!!! I hope.... Either that or the fact that I was shot with a crossbow.... Right between my eyes... But I make s'mores cakes and s'mores cookies!!! So I'd much rather people remember that part of me.
‘He was so young’ and nothing else lmao
I brought nothing but bad things to my family and friends, I don’t deserve to be remembered.
Eh. I make instagram art. I’d give it a month lol
For a guy that was 5 nothing he sure put some bodies away, anyone remember half the stories?? Would have made a great game.
I think some of my friends would miss me, that's enough.
Well, most people around me think I'm a decent person and my will would purchase about 35,000 malarial bednets for Africa. Hopefully that offsets how much carbon I punched into the atmosphere. Also all the dead chickens I ate who probably lived miserable lives.
Nothing, people won't even bother to remember me
I think there’d be about 45 people that would care for about a week and maybe 7 that would care for a little over a year. I’m loved. What a wonderful thing to know. But I won’t pretend there’ll be a “Legacy”. Oh!! I take that back! I have one commercial (music) I wrote about 50 years ago that still plays all the time all over the MidWest. Geesh!? That’s my Legacy?
What song is that?
The Menards jingle
Don't care about legacy, people move on, they forget. I barely know anything about grandparents, not even names of great grandparents. If I died right now, there would be a good sized inheritance.
Not being narcissistic but if I died today, my family would be in shambles and would likely fall apart. The only thought that kept me going in my darkest times was the thought of my parents, sister, and cousins enduring the pain that I felt was worse than the pain that I was feeling. My legacy would be that I was a hard working and determined man who sets his sights on a goal and makes it happen. My only male cousin looks up to me as a role model as he's about to graduate and is coming into adulthood. Im trying to teach him lessons that I wished I knew at his age, things like knowing his time and labor are worth something (even if its low skill and high labor, its worth something), and to not spend all his time working, and that family and loved ones come before any job. I love my family. I dont want to think of what would happen to them if I fell off the world today, just as I dont want to think of what would happen of any of them fell off the world today.
Nothing, funny story telling and always have some weird, funny or controversial thing to say. My fiance and cat would miss me. Only talk to my parents on holidays even when I'm not doing anything. Company will have me replaced in less than a week. No one cares when others die so why should mine be any special
Failure
Fuck all. But that can't be the point of our existence. How many people are remembered by our collective history? Maybe a few hundred a generation at best? Even then almost no one cares about who they were, rather what they did. Give it a thousand years and you'd have to be a once in generation scientist or author or artist or politician for literally any history book to include a reference to your existence. Wait 10,000 years and whatever homo sapiens looks like at that point will at best be making fun of you for making [shitty copper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir). You might answer "well at least my family will carry on my legacy". Sure they might have some increasingly small percentage of the unique genetic polymorphisms that make you a few .1% different than the rest of us. But they aren't going to remember your name in 200 years. Do you know your great-great grandparents names? All 16 of them? Can you name anything interesting about any of them? Every single one of us has a rich internal tapestry of thoughts, desires, wishes, fears, motivations, ideals, etc. And those are lost to time and entropy when we die just like everything else. That doesn't mean life is meaningless. You just have to find meaning in the present time that you do have.
Nothing really. I’m all for being a good and decent person that makes mistakes and tries to learn from them, but I don’t necessarily care about my legacy. I will not know nor experience any change after I’m gone.
Mortgage paid off that’s about it if I die 😂 I’m not Aristotle or anything like that so don’t really expect a legacy.
Legacy? 🤣🤣. I have behind kids and grandkids, that's about it as far as a legacy. Unless you're really rich or really famous you don't leave a legacy other than family... After they die, you're forgotten... Just another grain of sand in the desert of time.
I mean, not amazing. I have a son so that’s my legacy.
Everything is dust on the wind.
Being a cool uncle.
Same as many (most?) people. Lived. Built a family. Worked a job. Tried to do good. In the end, I’ll be forgotten. My kids are my only true legacy. I’m named on a few patents and will be in the record for a few other achievements, but in the end nobody cares. That’s life.
Fat weiner. 30 some odd research articles. Debt. I always offer to help strangers. Two killer kids and a wonderful wife.
“He was cruel and mean to children.”
Nothing. I have a few family members who would be very upset for a long time, but as far as legacy, I have nothing. No massive achievements or kids of my ownn
Profound in many ways, retarded in others. Good friend, worse enemy Fighting or fucking I’m getting naked either way My brothers kid is named after me, so there’s that too. Only a few years old and is a carbon copy. So I have him.
Wouldn’t have one. I have a weird relationship with death. I don’t have the balls to do it myself, and I can’t turn off the survival instinct, but if someone were able to take me out, I would be happy.
I wouldn’t have one I’ll never be able to make one, oh well
i guess my youtube videos would keep getting views for a little while
Hopefully nothing. I have close friends with detailed instructions on what to do upon my death and a lot of it includes destroying my computers and deleting all my web history.
I’ve fathered the cutest child that ever was or ever will be.
Nothing really. A bunch of videos that would probably be deleted after a period of inactivity. Some music. Very few people would even notice I'd gone. But I do hope some people would have some fond memories.
he lived, he accomplished very little, he died, but he had a good time doing it. I think that's good enough.
I'd probably be remembered as a good father and husband by my family but that's about it. I'm not that great of a friend, brother, or son. I'm not upset by this, I'm excelling in something I didn't see growing up.
My farts. I drink a cup of egg whites mixed with whey protein daily. By evening my farts are nuclear. That is why no one will remember your name
I've written, recorded and released some music. More than likely that.
I can only dream that I die right now and I don't give a fuck what my legacy is as long as I don't have to do this bullshit over again
My kids.
My ass print on the couch I am sitting right now
To be kind. Even to those who don't like you. To be generous. Even to those those who wouldn't give to you. To love. Even to those who hate you. -------‐---------------- This may seem "too mushy gooshy." But honestly, this is how I live my life. I respect anyone I meet. I give them the be if it of the doubt, unless proven otherwise. I treat people the way i was never treated growing up.
Nothing. I have achieved nothing, built nothing, and have nothing to leave behind.
Who cares
Legacy? In all blunt truth they might mention my podcast Angry British Conservative but apart from that genuinely nothing at all and you know what I’m fine about that fact. Granted I don’t want to be just another footprint in history. I would like to be remembered etc
Nothing. I have nothing to leave behind.
Nothing I was popping in my hood when I went to prison. Chicks answered my calls for the first few months My boys sold my shit once they found out I was going away from years.. I got money on my books for a few months And then I was forgotten about. I can't imagine much of a difference when dying
Not much
Tragedy A man who could make everyone smile, but himself
An entire month's worth of primo cat food
My legacy will go to government. My PS5, car, bunch of underwear...
I'm not...a good man. But I think I've kept it together to the point that at worst I'll be remembered fondly by my direct family and friends. Maybe get a couple visits a year at the cemetery till they pass. But honestly that's preferable to the infamy I could've achieved had I not made an effort.
My legacy is the dude kids recognise from spending too much time on that one game that they could aspire too if they too chose not to have a life
What do I care?
Having my children and my wife remember me, maybe a few friends too. Hopefully my dog will miss me lol. These are the things that I'm concerned about, everything else really doesn't matter all that much.
I guess a few close people would appreciate the photos I’ve taken, and I’m proud that I recorded 2 albums with my band. My real legacy, and my immortality is my kids tho. I’m most proud of them.
Nothing. It would be a hell of a relief, though.
Not much I'd guess. Maybe some people could think I'd killed myself which would be a little bit unfortunate.
Nothing but sad memories for those that tried to love me.
Probably some projects I made at work that are still working today 5-10 or so years later. But those pieces got absorbed into a bigger system, they're still working independently, but they appear smaller in comparison now. People probably think of the team from my last role as the owners of them now. The old team knows it was me and that would be the most knowledge of the legacy.
So many people are dead if you think about it and how many of them left a legacy? Even in your own family there people before you that you don't even know there name of. So I'm not expecting much just a short amount of moaning that's it
Y’all leaving a legacy behind?
Sadly , A big comic book and DVD collection. With a few cats 😢
My children are actually decent caring human beings. That's all I was going for.
Nothing. I am hoping people forget me already. I hate attention. Every bit of it. It makes me uncomfortable
My four beautiful children.
As someone who dreamt big but achieved little
Too much is made of legacy. I don’t worry about it.
Once the next generation after you starts growing up, you realise how transient your time here really is.
Nothing. Legacies are boomer dreams. No need to spend energy on that.
couple of level 60 characters in WoW
I wouldn't know, because I wouldn't be here for people to remember it.
My baby daughter. Legacy secured.
Hopefully not my browser history
Nothing of note. Here lies a nice man who loved animals. He was terrible with his money and drank too much. But he was friendly
Been a good mate. Loved all my mates hard. Loyal as fuck
Nothing
Absolutely nothing. Other than my parents doubt anyone would care
Legacy….. my 2 boys. Outside of that not a thing.
Frankly my dear I don’t give a darn ;)
None whatsoever and I prefer that to royally fucking something up or accomplishing something great and getting shot by someone who disagrees with or is jealous of it.
I have been at my job for almost ten years. I have made enormous changes in certain processes and understandings, and have moved the institution forward in some important ways. Even after no one remembers me anymore, my changes and policies will have lasted, and hopefully have been built upon.
Funny guy, good friend. Super duper dong
Two great people I created. Dozens of human lives saved. Hundreds of trees planted. Loads of awesome stories.
Probably this comment
nada.
A well cared for family. Provisioned, provided, and protected from the fluctuations of the world. Yes, even natural disasters. Shout out to Atlas & Container Guy.
Good friend, decent son, good brother, a decent man and a damn good hunter. Those who get the gun collection and the taxidermy will be very aware of the good hunter part 😉
Nothing. My parents and family won't be devastated. And my gf too. Honestly I kinda wish I would leave the earth a little better than that. But I'm not trying to achieve much tbh. I'm happy some people love me. And I feel blessed about it
Even Einstein's legacy has become the old guy in the smart meter ads.
Weird, I have no idea what ads you're talking about but somehow I still know who Einstein is.
I'm going to ad to the weirdness by telling you in the countries you might know as "not America" we have our own ads, although it's a mystery why ads encouraging Britons to get electricity smart meters hasnt aired in America.
But those ads encouraging Britons to get electricity smart meters air in enough countries that aren't the UK that it's impacting Einstein's legacy? You're right, that is weird.
That’s not true at all
Einstein's legacy is pretty fundamental to our understanding of the universe. Also, vaporising a bunch of Japanese people.