How is it horrific ? How can you be advantage or disavantaged in any way, shape or form if you're dead ? Whether you have monuments built in your name or nobody remembers you makes no difference since by definition you would be dead.
Wanting to be remembered is a retarded normie preoccupation, nobody would be rememberd given enough time anyway. Even the Da Vinci of this world are nothing but a blip in the scale of the history of the universe.