The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #92207   Message #1760427
Posted By: Paul Burke
15-Jun-06 - 04:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Burial or Cremation?
Subject: RE: BS: Burial or Cremation?
Villan: tell your daughter not to worry about being a black hole. Remind her that there was a time when she didn't feel anything- before she was born, so there will be a time when she doesn't feel anything again. It's no worse a prospect than being deep asleep and not dreaming.

And tell her that a long time before she was born, she was a star. That's true of all of us, since every atom in our bodies, except for hydrogen and any traces of helium and lithium, was created from hydrogen in the fusion furnace of the depths of a star. And her atoms will be in a star again.

And even if the atoms fall finally into a black hole, there is probably another universe on the other side.