You will either get buried and rot into sustenance for worms and bacteria or you will get cooked into carbon and calcium to be spread out and become intermixed with the soil.

So will everyone that currently exists barring nuclear annihilation. I find solace that my atoms will maybe be a tree or a bird or even just grass.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The sun isn't massive enough to explode. It will just expand and get hotter, making Earth too hot to support life, and then burn out, making Earth too cold to support life. And even a supernova probably won't destroy atoms. Most of our atoms will probably survive the 'death' of the sun.

[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I'll just have to be happy knowing matter breaks down and I won't be me but the things that were me will be other things, unaware of what they were.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Gotta wait till the heat death of the universe, then.

[–] bufordt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I thought the sun will become a red giant, and the earth will eventually be pulled into the sun. Which I believe will still leave most of our atoms intact.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

I won't exist. That's enough lol.