I think there's inhumanity of a kind on both sides of this question. "Everything you've done will be forgotten, and no one will remember your name" is the sort

I think there's inhumanity of a kind on both sides of this question. "Everything you've done will be forgotten, and no one will remember your name" is the sort of thing the bad guys say in movies. But that's what happens to most of us in the end. I think it's natural not to want that.