“All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's...” — Caitlin Doughty Quote

“All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'”

“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”

“In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.”

“Evolution, climate change, and the construction of the physical universe down to its atoms are processes that we measure in millions or billions of years.”

“I feel fortunate to live in a time when a formerly unimaginable possibility of predictably programming the atoms comprising our existence is now within reach.”