2007-02-24 11:31:03 · 13 answers · asked by Karleen 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I do know that everyone has someone who will say that they were a "good" person. What I mean is will people say that you were giving, kind, selfless, a great role model, will your children strive to be the kind of parent you were? Does thinking about these things make you want to change anything in your life?
2007-02-24 11:43:37 · update #1
When i die, i cant make a hope again cause i'm dead.
2007-02-24 11:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by khatijah_71 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm having a horrible problem about that question. I want people to remember me, to praise my life and the achievements in it. To make sure I'm remembered, I want to do some sort of major work, like a book or a piece of art, or something. But I'm also having another thought. The people who remember me and love me will die, and then there will be no one to remember me. And history doesn't remember EVERY author and artist. Rome, for example, had maybe 1000 famous works and playwrights. How many of them do we still remember now, maybe three at most. So the way I see it, no matter what I do, I have a 95% chance of having the everlasting legacy of being worm chow, so I don't plan on changing my ways.
2007-02-24 21:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. Psychosis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want people to say, "Man! That guy had it together! That guy was aware of life!" and I need not change because the truth is that all moves in this life were predestined. I lived to be the best person I could and survive the circumstance of the Rat Race at the same time, taking on relationships that I was meant to have along the way! We all do our best! We all go to heaven.
2007-02-24 20:32:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really makes no difference at all to a dead person what others say about him. To be honest, I suppose I would like to be thought of favorably, though it doesn't matter in the least. No matter who you were, in five thousand years no one will ever have heard of you, or heard of anyone else hearing about you. Perhaps all we can do is our best and our kindest while living. If you know that this is all you have, perhaps that might make a difference in how you approach life.
2007-02-24 19:42:10 · answer #4 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want people to say that I was a brilliant songwriter & a great artist, also a passionate, sensitive, loving person. I think I'm doing ok but I should dedicate myself more to my art. I don't plan to have children. My creations are my children. Through my paintings & songs I could live on forever...
2007-02-24 20:18:22 · answer #5 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are probably going to say that was Janie she fought hell and highwaters for what she believed and knew was right, she loved her family, she made some mistakes and had her hard times, but she had a lot of gumption and courage too. She was a hard act to follow and probably one of the bravest people we knew. She did a lot of brave and crazy things over time, and lots of people didn't understand her, but they respected her for who she was in life, maybe in a 100 years they might get it right like she asked them too. LOL I don't think that looking at this would make me want to change a thing.
2007-02-24 19:42:56 · answer #6 · answered by Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No matter what, people almost always say at a funeral that the person was a "good man," or "a loving father," or "a loving son/daughter."
I think it's rather difficult to do so many bad things in life that you actually get talked down at your own funeral. Even the mothers of mobsters cry at their son's funerals.
2007-02-24 19:36:22 · answer #7 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a pretty good idea what they'll say about me! Anyway, it won't really matter to me, do you think? As for changing, I'm sort of "changing" all the time as I "grow" & that is what living is all about.
2007-02-24 19:37:41 · answer #8 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we already worry enough about what people think of us without worrying about what people will think of us after we're DEAD! I'm too preoccupied with the present things that intrest me in life to care about "changing for the sake of people's opinions about me after I'm dead".
2007-02-24 19:56:23 · answer #9 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want people to say that I accomplished a lot. I want people to say that I was successful. I have a father who has done so much and accomplished so much it is my dream to just accomplish at least half as much as he has.
2007-02-25 00:32:16 · answer #10 · answered by Adelaide V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could honestly care less ill be dead i told my relatives to throw me to wolfs and buy a car with the money they would of spent on my coffin.
2007-02-24 19:40:27 · answer #11 · answered by rocko33543 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋