What A Physicist Would Say at Your Funeral: adapted from the original. Read at the scattering of Sue's ashes in Harris 21 August 2022 All the elements within this container were made in the crucibles of stars that spilled their guts into the universe as they died. Timeless matter, forming and reforming, and some, just some of those elements find their way in to us, assembling for a brief time our physical selves. You were made in such a way but you were so much more than a collection of atoms, you brightened our lives with your love, your creativity, your smile, your energy. Everything obeys the fundamental laws of physics; energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it will continue on forever, changing only shape and form so, all the heat produced by your mortal form, every small breeze created from your movement and calorie burned within you is still here in the energy around us. It has been borrowed from the Universe around us, it will never go away . We have absorbed some of your body heat, felt the breeze as you walked by, some of your energy has been absorbed and lives on within us. Every photon of light that reflected off your face, every breeze that blew through your hair, and the heat from every loving hug continues on. You have changed the path of history in many ways. Your life, your shadow, your laugh, the good that you did, will forever change the universe, your very own butterfly effect. Now, as we return your elemental form to the sand, sea and world let us remember this, not a bit of you is gone, you’re just less orderly.