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How important is leaving a legacy when you die?

For better or worse, Joseph's legacy is the current LDS church, the FLDS church and other offshoots, and polygamy. His direct line is completely gone.

What is your legacy? What will the people who knew you say about you when you're gone? Will anyone remember you, in 50 years?

I may still be alive in 50 years time.

I don't think I have a legacy, but my forefathers do, which I wish not to share. My mum sure will have a legacy.

Imwashingmypirate wrote:I may still be alive in 50 years time.

I don't think I have a legacy, but my forefathers do, which I wish not to share. My mum sure will have a legacy.

Good or not, it's a legacy.

From a song I'm listening to: if you don't give up and don't give in, you might just be okay.

Hang in there, pirate. :-)

harmony wrote:How important is leaving a legacy when you die?

For better or worse, Joseph's legacy is the current LDS church, the FLDS church and other offshoots, and polygamy. His direct line is completely gone.

What is your legacy? What will the people who knew you say about you when you're gone? Will anyone remember you, in 50 years?

Leaving a legacy is inevitable. Everyone leaves a "lifeprint."

The question is, how good is your legacy? I don't think it's important to leave a big one, but a good one. Quality over quantity.

I trust that my daughter will be the kind of person that makes her parents proud (since she's already doing that - I just have to make sure I don't do things to screw that up). If I can help accomplish that, I will consider my life a complete success.

Hi Harmony,

I think of ones legacy a little differently.

I think outside my family, no I won't be remembered not having done anything spectacular or amazing or worth remembering.

But, I like to hope that ones legacy is more than actual memory or tangible, measurable contribution to life. I think in each moment, we are making changes in our world, promoting goodness or thwarting kindness. I think of our lives as an experience to transform energy and however we do so, we are creating the future, for good or not so good. Whatever we bring forth is our legacy whether it is bringing a smile to another's face, or helping another along the road of life, or adding grace and goodness to the experience of life.

~dancer~

My legacy will be the broken pedigree of Mormon tithing which ended with me. None of my children will pay money to the great whore of Utah.

I parted the Mormon sea of lies and lead my children and their future generations to the land of intellectual and spiritual freedom.

harmony wrote:How important is leaving a legacy when you die?

For better or worse, Joseph's legacy is the current LDS church, the FLDS church and other offshoots, and polygamy. His direct line is completely gone.

What is your legacy? What will the people who knew you say about you when you're gone? Will anyone remember you, in 50 years?

In 50 year? If alive I will be 98. But I imagine I may have kids alive that will remember and maybe grandkids. After that nope. I am just like most of us, A regular guy that will leave little of his mark on the planet in the short time I have been here.

But for the time I am remembered what will they say? I hope that I was a decent human being who tried to emulate the Christ like attributes he believed in even though he often fell short.

Funny, I was thinking about this same issue recently. However I was thinking backward [I guess since I'm young and haven't accomplished much yet] about the legacy I have from my ancestors. Sadly I'm trying to deal with bad stuff in family history [and also my own countries history] and am not sure how to deal with that stuff. I mean does it mean I have a bad legacy if my ancestors leave what I'd consider a "bad" legacy?

I will be remembered for coming back from the dead and scaring kids who play in cemetaries at night. Even the dead need hobbies.

harmony wrote:How important is leaving a legacy when you die?

What will the people who knew you say about you when you're gone? Will anyone remember you, in 50 years?

In my opinion, there are two historical records, the one we're aware of in mortallity and the one we can read where everyone is at after we die.

I don't think they read the same - altogether different historys if we're referencing the likes of Joseph Smith.

If everyone ends up dead, the record there is the one I'll place a little value in.