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What's left over insists on being read — by archaeologists, coroners, and very nosy descendants.
bone memoryTeeth outlast everything, recording diet and childhood geography
legal weightA body becomes 'remains' the instant law gets involved
cremation mathAshes are mostly crushed bone, not soft tissue
linguistic ghostSame word means leftovers and corpses, fittingly
deep timeMost fossils are remains that beat astronomical odds