"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who
has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no
one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last
living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When
that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living
memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make
me truly dead?” - Irvin Yalom
The idea that at some point in the future, your name will be mentioned
for the last time ever. You were only a blip in the vast timeline of
human history, and now you will forever be forgotten.