Ecologist Curt Stager on Getting Cremated: It’s Much More Beautiful Than You Imagined

Someone gave me an Amazon gift certificate last month, which I used to buy ecologist and science journalistCurt Stager‘s 2014 bookYour Atomic Self: The Invisible Elements That Connect You to Everything Else in the Universe. I’m a few chapters into it, and it’s lovely. Stager has a way of wrappingdry biophysics in a kind of mellifluous poetry.

He also pulls that offwhile speaking off the cuff, as he did in a conversation with a writer from the World Science Festival. Here he’s talking about wha...