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I find it interesting the people actually think they might be special enough that people in a "few scant centuries" would even care to know who you were. We've long left the 15 minutes of fame to thinking we'll live in history.



Well, there are highs and lows when it comes to being known a century later.

From my hometown I think there are two past living things that people are aware of a century later.

First is Alfred Nobel of the Nobel Prize, no further explanation needed I guess.

The second is a circus horse that I couldn't explain why people care about 100 years later even if I tried.


If I'm remembering correctly, the circus horse invented dynamite.


It’s less that people will remember dylan604 and more that they find your skeleton laying around and can’t figure out whose it is (and therefore assume it must be King Charles’).


I don't see it that way, as I see it more of dylan604 doesn't care if someone can properly identify dylan604's bones let alone assume that someone in the future will give one iota of care about what a dylan604 even means. Besides, I plan on being cremated so there will not be anything left to ID. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust and all that completion of the circle of life stuff. Everyone being entombed in their plastic sarcophagi are breaking that cycle. Can't even become worm food in those.




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