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[Trivia Question]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969716324202?via%3Dihub

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lam.12345

https://www.epa.gov/so2-pollution/sulfur-dioxide-basics

[Fact Off]

Spaceship debris graveyard

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/what-happens-to-rocket-boosters-after-launch

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/in-russias-space-graveyard-locals-scavenge-fallen-spacecraft-for-profit#.w0egudhkhbw

https://www.nature.com/articles/433095a.pdf?origin=ppub

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19127713

Oleic acid as a death cue

https://web.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/previous/Gordon1983Dependence.pdf

https://www.pnas.org/content/106/20/8251

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2009/04/01/102601823/hey-im-dead-the-story-of-the-very-lively-ant

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24054-2

https://www.ijbs.com/v09p0313.htm

http://www.researchtrends.net/tia/article_pdf.asp?in=0&vn=9&tid=20&aid=5289

[Ask the Science Couch]

Eco-friendly burial options 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/is-cremation-environmentally-friendly-heres-the-science

https://www.cremationassociation.org/page/alkalinehydrolysis

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4895712/New-type-cremation-DISSOLVES-bodies-LIQUID.html

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12421

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWo2-LHwGMM

[Butt One More Thing]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30111659/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17091303/