To immortalize a human might be impossible but as long as one person knows your name, you are never truly dead. Throughout history, many groups and agencies have memorialized an event or created a memorial but there are more steps and factors in completing this action than most people believe. Memorials and events need to represent something and portray its background properly. When a group or agency memorializes an event or person and when they create a monument, they should include the factor of how other individuals will interpret what they make and if the monument can be able to send the onlooker the message of what the creation meant in the past and what it currently represents. On its own, a memorial might have no significant meaning
