Stardust

Physicist Stephen Hawking has passed away. So brilliant -- he described the universe to us in ways that we can only begin to understand. What a tremendous contribution to human knowledge. What has he learned now, as he has become one with the cosmos?
We are all stardust.

Offspring the Second, ever eloquent, stated simply:
A lifetime is but a drop in the eternity of the cosmos, but that's all we get, and that's all we need.
Enjoy the beyond, professor.

Indeed. Godspeed, Professor.