# Do you believe in past lives? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 23, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-past-lives/648137 "2013-01-23T19:02:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-past-lives/648137/6 "2013-01-23T19:39:15Z")
No. There’s no evidence for it, nor is there evidence it’s possible. Nor would I really care about it if it was true; I’ll quote myself from an [old thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=511458) I started on the subject of reincarnation: > [@If reincarnation were true, would you care ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-reincarnation-were-true-would-you-care/490538/1): > > I certainly don’t recall any such lives, and my memories are the most important part of what makes me, me. If you could prove to me that I had a soul with past lives, it would be like proving to me that a particular iron atom in my blood once was part of Alexander the Great; mildly interesting, but that’s all. Reincarnation is functionally equivalent to having no soul at all, in my eyes. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-past-lives/648137)._