LogFAQs > #956632669

It's just nothingness lol. Usually most mention of reincarnation or some being after death tends to be a form of reassurance or some tool to reinforce morals. Logistically, either the fact that your soul or something goes into another being with a fresh memory just doesn't make sense because the total amount of functional things not only vary in numbers but size, and technically every single cell and microorganism could also be considered living beings with soul, which makes it incredibly unlikely that even if a soul can reincarnate that it would actually matter.

There's also the obvious fact that if you are utterly incapable of remembering a supposed previous life, then it's as good as not having existed. A person whose entire cells have been replaced by new ones throughout the course of your life could be considered an entirely different person altogether, and generally around 7 years, which is how long it takes, is enough to consider the person you are then to be an entirely different being. At least the distinction here is that you remember your past at that moment which is why you would still consider the person you were 7 years ago to still be you. But if there is 0 way to remember who you were in between lives then you can hardly be called the same person, and any fear of having done wrong to some previous life of yours is also based on illogic.

But to postulate that one could live past death is a fruitless exercise that can work to the extent the person believing it is willing to be affected by them. For me, I can understand that death is just the end and nothing more, but I'm not so foolish that I'm gonna commit some crime because of some lack of belief in post-death consequence of how one lived their life

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