Here’s NPR commentator Aaron Freeman’s cold comfort suggestion of having a physicist talk at your funeral:
You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world.
(Quoted from page 231 of Your Atomic Self: The Invisible Elements that Connect You to Everything in the Universe, by Curt Stager. St. Martin’s Press, 2014.)
For a brief biography of Aaron Freeman, click here. For images of or relating to Aaron Freeman, click here.
For a brief biography of Curt Stager, click here. For images of or relating to Curt Stager, click here.
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