# "Reincarnation" and Immigration. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345 "2018-07-05T20:29:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/21 "2018-07-08T20:19:10Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > If you were married in your past life, are you still married to that person in your current life? Not really willing to wade in on this thread on most of the points, but this one is a gimmee. It does say “till death do us part”. Reincarnation or no, that sounds like a legitimate way of terminating the contract. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/22 "2018-07-08T22:37:58Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > Yes, on the condition that they also stay where they are **at the same time** , and that they pay their taxes double (or triple, or more, depending on how many other lives the no-longer-an-individual has). If they protest that reincarnation actually doesn’t work that way, the response is “Neither does anything else”. 🙂 Another thing; if you’re claiming to be the reincarnation of some dead person, you should be required to repay the life insurance payout and the Social Security survivor’s benefits (or whatever the equivalent is in your country) that have already been paid out to the spouse. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/23 "2018-07-09T03:26:11Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > What we COULD do, though, is make a sitcom about it. > > “My So-called Lives”. 🙂 Well, more like [My Mother the Car](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MyMotherTheCar)… (\<— warning: TVTropes link!) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/24 "2018-07-09T03:56:44Z")
D’oh! :smack: All those years wasted with US Immigration, getting the wife permanent residency in the US and, coming soon, citizenship when I could have just claimed she was my grandfather who died in the 1950s! Lesson learned. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/25 "2018-07-09T06:17:03Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > D’oh! :smack: All those years wasted with US Immigration, getting the wife permanent residency in the US and, coming soon, citizenship when I could have just claimed she was my grandfather who died in the 1950s! Lesson learned. You married your own _grandfather_? Eww. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/26 "2018-07-09T06:25:02Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > My motherfucking university used it as the student ID#, which is how my boyfriend got hold of it and eventually used it to open a bank account he never touched again, thus fucking my credit score. Any university worker could make off with lists of hundreds of SSNs real easily. UCLA did too. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/27 "2018-07-09T20:17:38Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > It does say “till death do us part”. Reincarnation or no, that sounds like a legitimate way of terminating the contract. “'Til death do us part” seems to me , Councilor, to be so ridiculously vague as to be unenforceable. The marriage contract certainly doesn’t expressly stipulate “bodily death” as the terminator, and that is the only type of death my client provably suffered in his prior state of existence. Indeed, since my client has established beyond a reasonable doubt that he is the same entity as the “ex” husband of the plaintiff, then how could he, in fact, have died? I submit that the exact opposite has occurred - that which was the man in prior lives, to wit, his consciousness, never died. It instead lived on uninterrupted, albeit in a temporarily “homeless” state, and continues to live today through the body that you plainly see before you. Given those facts, your honor, I submit that the plaintiff, now 92 years old, is still contractually the wife of my client and he should be afforded all the rights and responsibilities thereof. Just sayin. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/28 "2018-07-10T02:56:58Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > If you were married in your past life, are you still married to that person in your current life? According to my ex-husband (and his now wife) the answer to that question is yes. “We pledged eternity together in a past life” is one of those things that you start to say “um, really, well then…I guess this is goodbye” (or good riddance). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-and-immigration/817345/29 "2018-07-10T11:02:22Z")
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