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Originally Posted by doppler
Not upset at all, I just find it interesting how impossibly complicated life is from a physics point of view. The fact that my existence will end but all the atoms that made me will still be there and the energy that was me will go somewhere but will still exist.
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The carbon atoms in You, I and everybody else where part of a star once. That star has probably ceased to exist a long time ago.
When I cease to exist, my atoms will still be around, but they will be cremated into different compounds. The essence that was me will cease to exist. As no new food can be intaken, the energy that my body produces will have also ceased production.
Once, I was 7,14,21 years old. My body produced energy then (still does, fortunately), but that old energy is not lingering in any conscious form.
I have family who have passed. I can remember them, I can see them in photos, and I miss them. However, they are gone, and no amount of creative thinking of mine can bring them back. And alas, so it will be with me later this century.