We Are All Made of Stars

Excerpted from A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, ©2003:

They (atoms) are also fantastically durable.  Because they are so long lived, atoms really get around.  Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.  We are each so anatomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-- up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-- probably once belonged to Shakespeare.  A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.  (The personages have to be historical, apparently, as it takes the the atoms some decades to become thoroughly redistributed; however much you may wish it, you are not yet one with Elvis Presley.)

 And that reminded me of this:

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