Art, a pathway to imortality

Listen to Queen: Who wants to live forever

 “Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”

Irvin D. Yalom, Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
First of all, I just want to say that I had this post in draft for a while. In the meantime, I found out somebody actually started reading my blog, which is nice, thank you so much for that. On the other hand it's someone I know and gave the link to, so I'll call that only  a half a win. 
    Now, on to the topic at hand: as others have said, once the mortal body passes away and all who have known you pass away too, all that is left are memories of the person. One path to immortality is to create something that will have enriched humanity in a way that will be forever mentioned.  That would mean creating art like Michelangelo, science like Pythagoras or Galileo, music like Beethoven, engineering like Diesel or Brunel, theatre like Shakespeare, motorcycle videoblogging like Mordeth13 etc. That way, even after the mortal body passes, people will still be talking about the author of the work if it brings them any use (joy, catharsis, driving his car etc). The work becomes in a way a Horxcrux, encasing a piece of the author's soul to be preserved for eternity or until the library burns down. How exactly singers and actors manage to perform thousands of times without using up all that soul is beyond me, leave a thought on that if you do know. 
    I won't wish you all to live forever as that may be more of a curse than a blessing, but I do  hope you'll all be loved as you wish to be loved!