How Will We Be Remembered?

The more I work, online, the more that I am aware of the finality, and brevity, of this life.  It makes me wonder, 'How will people remember me, when I'm gone?'  It saddens me to hear, or read, when someone dies, especially when it's a tragic death.  Sometimes, I read about famous people, online, after their passing, and I've got to say that gossip has no place in an obituary article.  It's just wrong.  I wish that people would, only, write about the things that are best to be remembered about a person, especially in an obituary article.  I know that it will never be that way, it'll stay the way it is, and people will say whatever they want to say, whether it is kind - or not.  The one thing that I, you, and every person in the world has in common - is our mortality,  and that should soften any hardened heart, but it doesn't.  I suppose a person has only to live their life, as best that they can, and not think about how they will be remembered.  Or, they can hire a good PR manager, and press agent, to handle any, and all, press written about them, when they're no longer able to edit a, personalized bio, draft - before it's published.