Have you ever thought about how many dead people's remains you may have come in contact with...

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Have you ever thought about how many dead people's remains you may have come in contact with simply by touching soil, dirt, mud, etc?

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ElideInto · 31-35, F

Do you go around moving th dirt in cemeteries or what?

Andrew19EightyFive · 36-40, M

@ElideInto I don't remember the last time I was even in a cemetery.

I was thinking about like from an accumulation of thousands of years.

ElideInto · 31-35, F

People's remains decompose much, much faster than thousands of years unless they are preserved somehow. There's no trace of them left. Plus there's a lot of soil in the Earth. The proportion is so small that worrying about it seems silly. You probably breathe more dead cells from people every day than touch them through the soil

Andrew19EightyFive · 36-40, M

@ElideInto Yuck... *holds nose* Thanks for that.

SW-User

Another one is water.

It's a very robust molecule lasting probably millions of years. Now the amount of water oh the planet hasn't changed much in a long long time... millions of years in fact.

So human history is very short but it is highly likely that nearly every water molecule you drink or bathe with has been through at least one dinosaur before. 😱