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Are we remembered forever?
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this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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You could argue that no one is ever truly remembered. Even people who are mentioned in history books and have their specific deeds remembered and preserved...
...within a couple of hundred years, there are no other humans left alive anywhere on the planet who personally knew said famous person. No one who knew them on any personal level, any more deeply that the handful of cold facts written down about them on record.
We are meant to be forgotten. Just another thing we have to come to terms with regarding our existence.