Benjamin Franklin wrote if you would not be forgotten…
Keyword death Benjamin Franklin wrote if you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either right things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
— from The Landing (Death) · Benjamin Franklin
In the book
What I most want to leave you is not a number on a page but a way to fly. Benjamin Franklin said that if you would not be forgotten the moment you are dead and rotten, you must either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing — and I have tried, imperfectly, to do both, and this book is my attempt at the first. Hold on to what our own tradition teaches about the landing, because it changes everything about the descent. — The Landing (Death)