  If strange matter is absolutely stable, the ordinary nuclei decay to
strangelets, while neutron stars convert into strange stars. Lifetimes of the
ordinary nuclei are constrained experimentally to be above $\sim 10^{33}$
years, while lifetimes of the metastable neutron stars depend on the neutron
star masses and can exceed the age of the Universe. As a consequence, the
neutron stars and the strange stars can coexist in the Universe. We point out
that numerical simulations of the conversion of neutron stars to strange stars,
performed by M. Herzog and F. K. Roepke in Phys. Rev. D 84, 083002 (2011)
[arXiv:1109.0539], are focused on a region in the parameter space of strange
matter, in which low-mass neutron stars and strange stars are coexistent,
whereas massive neutron stars are unstable and short lived on an astronomical
timescale.
