Someone told me that people die twice. The first is when their physical body dies. The second is when no one says their name anymore."Nobody really dies till he's forgotten"
Rock Hudson
Thus, my hero, Beethoven, is immortal!
What's sad is, my mom's mom, who is another of my heroes, will probably have her final passing after I and my brother are gone.
Or maybe online genealogy forums, like Ancestry, will keep us ordinary people alive, but relatively meaningless.