Me and my dad have discussed that very idea
Which is why I'm currently keeping alive stories and memories of people who died before I was born, and my cousins have no recollection of. I don't want them to fade away and not matter.
Like my grandad's uncle who always wore a white silk scarf and dragged a fish on a string to attract cats.
Or the lady whose pearls I'm wearing today, who once got felt up in a motor-car by a young Laurence Olivier.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:34, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Write 'em down
And then release them into the ether....
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:38, Reply)

nah
I'm just going to keep telling the stories until I die, and maybe someone will occasionally tell them after I die. And then I've messed things up, and these insignificant people will still be 'alive' long after people usually 'die'.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:42, Reply)

I've got tons of stories about my Grandparents and parents for exactly this reason.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:44, Reply)

I am glad for them and for you
That sounded sarky but it isn't.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:44, Reply)