Comment by ๐Ÿฆ” bsj38381

Re: "Thinking about life, the end of it, and what it will haveโ€ฆ"

In: u/pirkka

I'm wondering if I had passed away, is if my art will be put in museums are something, my traditional paintings at least, I have too much stuff, mainly clothes.

๐Ÿฆ” bsj38381

Mar 11 ยท 8 weeks ago

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๐Ÿš€ lars_the_bear ยท Mar 11 at 07:58:

@stack : do it. You'll feel much better. I still have a fair way to go, but I'll be happy if my only legacy is that my family don't have to clean up after me.

๐Ÿ‘ป darkghost ยท Mar 11 at 11:36:

Having watched my biggest accomplishments be undone while I'm still alive, I'm quite nihilistic about the whole legacy thing. Maybe there's enough time that I'll change my mind.

๐Ÿ pirkka [OP] ยท Mar 11 at 15:37:

@Aeolus I love books, but usually alternate between self-help b.s. that's essential for work (I work with a lot of managers) and cup-refilling, heart-healing fiction (think a fairly narrow genre range between Hemingway and Ishiguro; no Sally Rooney or such). Philosophy never gets caught in my net, for some reason. Epictetus, I own a book, but never opened it. Guess it's time for me to check out the one you're mentioning

๐Ÿš€ lars_the_bear ยท Mar 11 at 18:28:

@pirkka : "Epictetus, I own a book, but never opened it." Do yourself a favour, and read the darned thing ;) If nothing else, it's good to see how folks two thousand-odd years ago struggled with the same shit we do.

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Thinking about life, the end of it, and what it will have been all about โ€” Been thinking about end of life and legacy. And besides solving the most obvious problems, such as ensuring the successors are educated slightly better, have better network, and in general are healthier, I don't think there's much else I would like to have done. Like, I'm serious: everything I can think of (improve the environment, leave a mark, solve a big problem) would be 99% virtue-signaling and 1% noble, bur...

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