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Markers Headstones Tombstone Assuming each individual has some uniqueness: some knowledge, wisdom, or just a good story to tell: should we make a greater effort to preserve something of the individuals who pass through the world? Why, with all the technology available to us, should we continue to reduce everything a person has ever seen, done, thought, or dreamed to a name and date on a stone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10tP5HIpaA A lovely idea, but perhaps a person's legacy lives through all the things that that person "touched". That of course includes water balloons, food fights and pranks as well as hugs, knowing looks, thoughtful comments, lost car keys and sneezes. It includes books, experiments, discoveries, critiques, encounters, travel recommendations and comments about giraffes. It includes compliments, insights, predictions, wrangles and mistakes. And perhaps, as importantly, all the things that were thought about, but never done (thank God!). Other than having a sandwich named after me, I would like my epitaph to read, 'Though he thought he could beat Vegas, he had the maturity not to try....ok, well he did try but not for long and he did break even". Maybe a book or two...
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