 A different sort of proposal, narrativism, is that what it takes for us to persist has to do with the stories we tell about ourselves. We understand our lives in terms of narratives about the momentous events in our past and their influence on our later decisions and character. These narratives can be “identity-constituting”. The thought is not just that they bear on our “personal identity” in the sense of the characterization question—what sort of people we are in some fundamental sense. They literally determine when we begin and end. Roughly speaking, a past being is you just if you now have narratives of the right sort identifying you with her as she was then. A future being is you just if the narratives she has then identify her with you as you are now. Remembering a past event may be necessary for it to figure in an identity-constituting narrative, but it’s not sufficient, distinguishing narrativist from psychological-continuity views. Narrativists about persistence include Schechtman (1996: esp. ch. 5, 2001) and Schroer and Schroer (2014); critics include Strawson (2008) and Olson and Witt (2019). DeGrazia 2005: ch. 3 is a helpful overview. 