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Anyone who says they know what happens when you die is trying to grift you. No one knows and we all find out one day, no point in dwelling on it.

I hope reincarnation is true. I want to be reborn. But than again, I fear being reborn in some dystopian future.

If there is reincarnation and you don't remember a single thing from before, why bother it doesn't matter.

If there would be reincarnation where you remembered your previous life, surely someone would have spilled the beans on this by now. I surely would contact any sort of family friends that i had previously.

Since both could be possible but 2. hasnt happened and 1 doesnt matter i would give this a no.

The amount of effort people put into saying “Maaaybe. We really don’t know,” is just crazy to me. No, because it’s nonsense.

No. I believe in a relative afterlife (and people who feel confident that no afterlife is some sort of overwhelmingly logical conclusion should probably look closer at trending science and technology).

So I believe that what any given person sees after death may be relative to them. For those that hope for reincarnation, I sure hope they get it. It's not my jam but they aren't me.

That said, I definitely don't believe that it's occurring locally or that people are remembering actual past lives, etc.

It doesn’t make sense biologically

it seems reinicarnation, is an obsession amongst western countries co-opted from india/buddhism, and incorporated into many medias.

I believe in reincarnation just as much as I believe any other theory of an afterlife - that is to say, I don't.

We don't know. Nobody knows what happens when we die. That's ok, and I don't feel the need to make up a story to explain away the uncertainty.

I think it's likely that something happens when we die, but it could just as easily be nothingness, the end of existence. I only think it's likely because I definitely believe that there is SO much that we don't understand about the universe that it's more probable than not that SOMETHING happens that we can't currently fathom, perceive, or understand.

But, right now there's no real evidence. So I don't care, and I don't worry about it.

To our best understanding, everything that lives will die. I don't know what happens, it might be some form of heaven, it might be reincarnation, it might be transcendence, etc. However, I take comfort in the fact that it's a shared experience, whatever it is. It's natural. It's part of the process.

The universe doesn't owe us an explanation. Maybe we'll figure it out, but we haven't yet, and I'm fine with that.

The fact that your particular molecules will reconstruct into something else is 100% certain

Will you keep your particular consciousness in this process - unlikely

However if you drop off the definition of You as your current limited body and mind, then reincarnation is exactly what happens.

If it was real and you could retain memories of past lives, I'm confident we'd have some evidence/proof.

If it exists without memory retention and its just some sort of "soul" concept then it really doesn't matter since you won't remember anything for it to be worth worrying about.

No.

Enjoy the ride.

No.

Do you remember before being born? It's the same after.

It's hard to say exactly. I wouldn't put it past the dev(s) to have potentially put something like "The Egg" in, so potentially yes, though we'd have no way of testing for it.

Story by Andy Weir here: https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI

Nope. I have never seen any evidence of reincarnation, so have no reason to believe in it.

I hope not.