The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death. And so quick were my thoughts, that I saw myself despised by unborn generations, – Estella’s children, and their children.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 53. When Orlick ambushes Pip on the marshes in order to murder him, Pip worries more about how he will be remembered afterwards than he does about dying. Among his concerns are that Estella’s father Magwitch will believe he has deserted him, Herbert will doubt him and Joe and Biddy will never know how sorry he was for the way he treated them.