You live on in the things you have accomplished and the people you have touched. If a person were to invent energy and perpetuual motion and cold fusion and time travel, they have to have been motivated to do it. If their third grade teacher motivated them at one time in their life to do something that they didnt want to do and they did it anyway and realized that they benefitted from it, then that third grade teacher accomplished just as much as the person who conquered modern science.

And who motivated the third grade teacher to be a teacher?

And who motivated the third grade teacher to be a motivational figure in the lives of third graders?

Death is just the end of the time that you have to get stuff done.

Cheers