Ask Lemmy

I have done my best to make the lives of the people around me better, and I have taken joy in life.

What need legacy?

I wholeheartedly don't care about any of that. I just go with the flow and give the present moment my full attention.

Not really. "Legacy" doesn't mean anything to me as it won't matter when I'm dead because I'm dead.

Eh. Marks on the world are hardly ever single instances of action by single people.

Way I see it, if I can end up contributing in whatever small ways to better myself, my neighbors, my country, and the world through whatever small acts I can then I will.

I do what I do for the sake of belief in myself, and those around me, if something comes out of it then all the better, if not then better fail than never have tried.

No

Nah, I'll probably kill myself within 5 years and leave whatever money I have leftover to some friends who could use it. I'd much rather be forgotten than leave a legacy

I'm sad it will take that long

Well, I take this as a challenge. Both the "dying" thing (I'm young enough I suspect we will reach Longevity Escape Velocity before I'm old enough it wouldn't help me - and if such technology were to be hoarded, I'd advocate actively leaking any such information and enabling mass production nya), and the "doing something positive to change the world" thing.

So I wouldn't say it makes me sad. Instead it makes me determined and extremely stubborn (I also enjoy myself, though - not here constantly obsessing over death even if I consider it highly unethical and a major violation of morphological autonomy that must be resisted by any means necessary).

Meh, no matter how bad I screw up it will be forgotten

No. Don't want kids either and don't feel bad about not leaving a "legacy". I'm just trying to not go insane, which sometimes works better, sometimes works worse. I rather live only 30 years but am mostly healthy and spend my money on things I like, with people I love. Sadly I'm still too afraid to quit my job and do what I really like (or find out what exactly that is in the first place).

When I think of it, I try to look at the bright side that I won't have to worry about anything after I die. It is still sad though. I hope I have time to do the things I want to do before I die.

What millennial doesn't have a death wish right about now. We were left to die by the previous generations and have gone through how many once in a lifetime events now?

With AI devouring human creativity and the world going to absolute shit…

It can’t happen soon enough.

Not really sad, because I know where I go afterwards.