All That Remains: A Life in Death

by Sue Black

How can it be proved, using our innate human biology or chemistry, that we are who we say we are, and that who we say we are is who we have always been?

Love it.

The planet has finite mineral resources and each of us is made up of recycled parts that we, in turn, give back to the chemical pool.

Recycling.

‘It is the accompaniments of death that are frightful rather than death itself.’ Yet the control that we like to think we have over our lives is often an illusion. Our greatest conflicts and barriers exist in our minds and in the way we deal with our fears. It is pointless even to try to control that which cannot be controlled. What we can manage is how we approach and respond to our uncertainties.

Love this passge

Whatever plans or promises we make, illness and death have a habit of shifting the goalposts.

Too true

A broad estimate suggests that if you accumulated the amount of energy expended on cremations in one year in the USA alone, you could fuel a rocket for eighty-three return trips to the moon.

Bonkers...