# Reincarnation or oblivion?  Which would you choose?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 24, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-or-oblivion-which-would-you-choose/613844 "2012-02-24T15:10:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation-or-oblivion-which-would-you-choose/613844/27 "2012-02-25T09:40:29Z")

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> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#):
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> Presumably if you go again this is with a clean slate, so you are not ‘you’ in any real sense anyway, how is this different to oblivion?

I agree, and [have said so before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=511458).

> [@If reincarnation were true, would you care ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-reincarnation-were-true-would-you-care/490538/1):
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> 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.

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