So we want to be remembered after death – Göteborgs-Posten

The Graveyard with older cross outside Vaxholm. Stock Photography. Photo: Anders Wiklund, TT

Sweden Most people do not go down in history after his death, but many have ideas about how it will be perceived by life. The most common is to want to be remembered as a caring person.

caring and happy tops the list of properties people want to be remembered for after death, according to a survey of funeral Fonus.

Humorous men and happy young

A thousand of a total of three thousand respondents answered the question: “Which of the following statements best describes how you would like to be remembered for life?”

Both men and women caring has ranked highest, 61 percent of women and 48 percent of men responded that they want to remember as such. According to the survey, men are more likely to want to be remembered as humorists (ten percent of women three) and people over 30 choose a higher degree in be remembered as happy (22 percent against TO AVERAGE 15 percent).

Kristina Strömstedt is the director of Marina Regina hospice and meet many people in the final stages of life. She says that most people who are close to death do not think so much about what the world will think about them.

Last word is more important

– There are not many people usually talk about how they want to be remembered by others. They express more thoughts about the funeral and the things in life you are grateful for, or do not feel finished. Many people usually like to sum up his life. “I wish I had done this, or I am glad that I got to do this.” Stuff like I usually get up, but it is of course very individual.

Kristina Strömstedt says it is common to want to leave words behind than to worry about what people thought.

– Someone has chosen to record his last words to his family, written a text to convey at the memorial to his survivors as you wish they bring with them. I believe that it is more common that you think about how you want to be remembered while you are still in the midst of life, she says.

Jobs Related obituaries

Asa Carlsson’s family editor at Kristianstadsbladet and is working with the outside world’s last words to someone who passed away – the newspaper obituaries. She says most are related to professional life.

– Here are some very old soldiers and then often titles mentioned, it is a fairly typical male obituary . The ads is overall very professional life. Sometimes it’s a close friend who wrote and then lifted the softer parts arrive, but often it is a colleague or a boss who write, she says.

Asa Carlsson believes that the work-related parting may be due to the next of kin find it too hard to write themselves, but she would like to see more personal obituaries.

– Sometimes you it is a granddaughter who wrote that they remember how it smelled her grandmother’s and I think that describes the person better.

The Facts: The answers under the category “Other”

I want to be remembered as …

World Citizen

as a good parent

a little too serious

a mad inventor

a bad man

One who loved

Not at all remembered

(the answers are a selection)