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When your innings is over

As in you have kicked the bucket or said your Sayonara, what really happens?

For one you do not occupy any more physical space on our planet at least if you are cremated. Here the organic matter will simply convert into multiple gases and a lot of the matter will convert into heat energy as it grills on the flame until a pile of ashes is left behind.

Gruesome some may say but that is really all there is to it. Now on the subject of how people will remember you there can be some benchmarks established if you were a well known entity when living.

Examples could be - Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Osama BL, Mark Twain, Steve Jobs, George Carlin or Jerry Seinfeld.

But for most of us that is not a privilege we are able to earn. So then the host of romantic write ups of how one should not chase money and material things in life, because you cannot take them with you; you are only remembered by your deeds etc. seems kind of blah.

If chasing material things in life makes you happy when you are living then I say go for it. After you are dead it does not matter anyway.

That does not mean you violate your moral compass (if you have one for starters) but do no evil as Gandhi said and you will steer alright. Evil too is largely in the eyes of the beholder but try to stay in the bell curve I say.

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  1. In the larger scheme of things (cosmic?) we are actually insignificant. So I would tend to agree.

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