“That is what death means. We exist in the minds of other people, in thousands of memory clusters, and one by one those clusters fade and disappear. Some years from now, at a funeral with a slide show, only one person will be able to say who we were. Then no one will know.”
Roger Ebert, as fierce a writer as ever, reflects on life, death, and what it’s like to have friends and peers die. (via explore-blog)
Puts me in mind of something I read long ago—we die three times: the physical event, the day we are buried, the day no one remembers us at last.
29 July 2012 Just heard this story given on Radiolab. It’s in Season 6, in the After Life episode.
(via explore-blog)
