Stars

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nearly all of the elements that make us up are born from dead stars, 

churned up in their stellar cores and then injected into 

the interstellar medium upon explosion.

we never *really* die. 

we are recycled within the cosmos, 

forming new bright lights, 

star dust eternal.

- Sarafina Nance @starstrickenSF, Astrophysics PhD student at UC Berkeley and NSF fellowon Twitter (but the phrase breaks are mine)

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We are a way for the universe to know itself. 
Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. 
We long to return. 
And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. 
We're made of star-stuff.

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos.

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Every ingredient in the human body is made from elements forged by stars. So are all of the building blocks of your food, your bike and your electronics. Similarly, every rock, plant, animal, scoop of seawater and breath of air owes its existence to distant suns.

from Science News for Students, published by Society for Science & the Public

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I have no idea why these statements comfort me.

But they do.

- Your Atheist Muse