" Look,” said Sid, “all I’m saying is that memories ain’t for other people to gawk at; they’re for the individual and the people that helped make them.  And that’s more sacred than anything you’ve got in that box of tricks over there, believe you me.” “And if they’re memories the individual doesn’t remember, or even know that they possess?  Or if their minds begin to fail?” “Yeah, all that too.  Bad or good, they shape us.  And people’s memories of us are all that’s left when we’re gone.  They’re the only thing we truly leave behind.  That goes for you and me too.” “No…”  The Supreme Sorcerer’s voice trembled.  “We are everlasting…eternal…infinite… "

― Sorin Suciu , In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett