Cannot upvote enough

I knew a women in a wheel chair from visiting a chiropractor. He made tiny error and she was paralyzed. I won’t see one because of it even though I hear people say how good they are. Just can’t.

My mom had dementia. She started showing signs in her mid Forty's. She still had her personality for the most part. But it took a part of her and she knew it but she didn't know what she lost. It was awful to watch her slowly deteriorated. She died in an accident at 62. I miss her constantly but I'm glad she never forgot who my dad, brother or I was. My grandfather died about a year before and she constantly forgot. I would just talk about him like he was alive. I couldn't stand for see the hurt in her realizing he was gone.

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Ummm. I'm here to add a voice of hope too. There can and is health after mental health breaks and psychotic breaks. And hopelessness (often a symptom/factor chicken/egg mess) that prevents people from ever returning a state of balance is not to be denied by any stretch. But this statement is too black and white and leaves no room for growth or rehabilitation. If we believe that some bodies can be healed from devastating injuries and equilibrium achieved, why not the mind. With enough of the right supports and treatments? Sadly, mostly inaccessible since (at least for most western culture) we treat health (physical and mental) reactionary instead of preventative. And money drives everything. But as someone who's been suicidal, there can be true mental health after if you live long enough to get there.

"I hear dead giggles"

So theoretically…

;( Hod. So sad and sobering.

this has happened to me way too many times. i suck at making friends. the friends I have now are nice though :)

The lake it is said never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy...

My husband had one when he was 32. He fell asleep watching TV and I woke him up to say it was bedtime. He said he had a headache and that he'd rest there for a while. I didn't think anything of it and went to bed. Our kids found him when they got up early to watch TV before school and they woke me up saying daddy was sleeping on the floor. People rarely survive aneurysms and they usually do so by getting immediate medical care. It's a miracle that he survived and is with us today.

Walked past? The guy was our waiter at the local Italian restaurant and went to school with my sister. She hated him, which felt very justified indeed some years later when he abducted and killed a local man and dumped his body in a national park.

yeah i see you all.. GO TO SLEEP!!! STAY HEALTHY!!! (i know its hard but u can do this!)

And the Darwin award goes to..

I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW THIS 😨

Stop putting “you’re welcome” at the end of these, a******s.

they gotta get to my bond villain island first. good luck fam...

Yes I can confirm this, as I do this. I'm not even the same on different social medias- Here I'm a bat, somewhere else I might be a tree or a loaf of meat. My parents Don't know i'm a furry and my Friends Don't know that I actually hate one of them. Nobody knows me whole, maybe I don't even know myself.

My great-grandfather died in 2017:( Though I was only 7, I remember he told stories about how he fought in WWII and how he shared the chocolates he got for christmas with my sister and I :)

In my country, we have a saying “All is forgotten 100 years from now”, which basically means, ‘if you screw up, never mind, the world goes on and so do we’.

My great-grandparents? Quite a lot really. I'm wearing my great-grandfather's wedding ring right now and I have a bench hammer of his that I use all the time. My writing desk came up the Mississippi in the 1830's. That was owned by my great-great-great-great grandparents. I have their Bible in my library among other books of theirs. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather owned more remarkable buckets (in his estate) then seems appropriate to name in an estate. On my dad's side, the family trees die off in the early 1700's. The whole culture of Donauswabian people moved down the Danube to the Balkans and the old records were lost it would seem. My family on both sides are/were full of genealogists. Will I be remembered? Doubtful, but we'll see.

So historical figures dont count? What if my Great grandfather was a famous author, artist , leader or some s**t. Do something meaningful and you will be remembered

Nope. Not a heck of a lot more, but let's face it: when I was a kid, it was unthinkable to voluntarily listen to 30-years-old music. There were TWO movies that were older than ten years old that any given kid had likely seen (the Sound of Music and the Wizard of Oz). Most movies came out in the theaters, were shown on TV a couple of years later a few times, and then disappeared never to be seen again. (One other exception: movies that had lapsed copyrights so were shown during baseball game rain delays.) Today my son knows the Star Wars movies by heart, listens to almost exclusively 70s rock, and likes watching TV shows from across six different decades.

I know a lot about my great grandparents. I spent a LOT of time with them as a child. But the world doesn't know that much about me now and I like it that way.

Also, how much of your future family will keep all your information storage for reflection, or will you just be some ancient ancestor like the sepia pics of your current great great whatever

My great-grandfather is still alive at the age of 96 (but that's probably because I'm not even 14 yet)

One of my great grandfathers was a ship builder and worked on the first nuclear submarine. I have his tools and his pocket watch. Get to know your great grandparents.

I just had this discussion with my godmother.... she wants actual printed pics of everything bc even now she has some older digital pics that without a specialist she's unable to view.

People are much more aware of backwards compatibility these days, as well as the need to preserve old equipment for period dramas. My grandfather recorded his life story on a reel-to-reel tape; but once digitised, it will be preserved for considerably longer. Plus, I've been on TV 3 times, so I shall exist in those archives.

This gets me thinking about the efficacy of long term data storage. I’m thinking we need to go back to carving in stone, or pottery, because everything made today has a far more limited shelf life!

My maternal great grandfather was shot off the back of a horse and was buried for 3 days before anyone knew he was dead. She was pregnant with Grandpa and learned he was killed by the husband of his mistress. Paternal great grandfather killed 14 men, that we know of. Police actually thanked him for killing one man that was deemed "the meanest sumbitch in 4 counties". Great grandmothers were homemakers.

My great grandma is still alive lol, she still cooks, walks, and is all there. Can't climb stairs tho :)

That's a very weak argument given about why we would not be remembered 100 years from now? At a certain time in the past, photographs were few and far between but we still have some odd black and white ones in the family showing our great great grandparents. In the future, as long as it's looked after, people even have books with colour photos and if you want to create detailed memories today, you can. Photographs can even be printed off a family printer. There will probably be far more 'photographic' evidence in the future to refer to. Now videos and moving images can be debated (obviously) as the format of that today may not be compatible in the distant future. The OP's argument though that we would be completely forgotten like we have forgotten people 100 years ago, simply isn't true.

Even if the storage system was ubiquitous there's not really that much of an average persons life that is going to be interesting enough to float to the top of all the petabytes of data. Each of us will be lost in the digital noise.

I'm pretty sure there are a few people from more than two generations ago that are still pretty well known.

That is what Ancestry.com is for, as well as descendants. Sadly, my kids are saying they may never have kids (mental health issues in our family: anxiety depression on my side, schizophrenia, extreme narcissisic tendencies, bipolar & psychosis on their dad's, who they no longer have contact with ' cuz he chose the wicked ho of the West over them (he just tossed his 18-year-old daughter out of his house less than 4 weeks after she turned 18 & who still has 4 months to graduate high school)!!

Why is being remembered in 100 years so dang important to people? I hope the good things I've done have ripples into the future, but couldn't care less if I'm remembered. That does literally nothing for the planet.

This is supposed to be depressing?

I appreciate your point, but I can still slam some high level Crystal Quest.

Side note: It's still possible to run a game on Windows 95 bc current windows programs can still run it. And somewhere there is still a computer running windows 95. With our grandparents, they didn't have any of that and many paper archives are destroyed or damaged.

I'm lucky enough to have known 2 sets of great grandparents, one set actually raised me . My son knows so much about them because I talked to him all the time growing up about these people he never got to meet .

I know a lot, actually! being that she's alive, that really helps

I have hard drives from the 90s, that I can still access the information in it. The comparison is idiotic. We are very good at saving relevant information. The point should be how relevant you would be, so humankind will like to save it

Have you never heard of data migration? Operating systems are continuously changing and to compare basic data storage to a game system is kinda silly.

I remember them fondly but I doubt my kids will have kids so I won't be having grands much less great grands lol

One of my distant cousins on my paternal side did a family tree going back to the 1700s, so I actually know a bit about my great grandfather on that side. My mother's side is a complete mystery. My maternal grand was adopted, so I know nothing about the biological great-grands.

no one will know me! 😭