Reincarnation: Your Oppinion?

[Clank]

Quick Summary // Description: Reincarnation, literally "to be made flesh again", is a religious doctrine or metaphysical belief that some essential part of a living being (in some variations only human beings) survives physical death to be reborn in a new body. Copied from Wikipedia.

I'm very interested by reincarnation and I was wondering if people knew and shared any thoughts based around it. And obviously, the main question, do you think it's true or not? I've put in a poll above asking if you believe. If filled in, please also write a comment going into more detail of your opinion.

Personally, I have no idea. I try thinking on both sides but I always come to the same conclusion: Confuzzled. As I'm also a strong believer in ghosts, this wouldn't make any sense to me. I can never come to a conclusion. Please comment telling me what your beliefs are on this subject.

Thanks for reading,
- Clankk. (:

[Pan]

I actually believe in reincarnation, it makes a lot of sense to me. And it has to do with your past life. Sometimes I kind of "remember" stuff I didn't even know.
Maybe there is reincarnation, but when you die you can pick if you want to live again or not.

[You Know Who]

Did you hear about Joe Tiralosi? He came back from the dead 47 mins after his heart stopped beating. I'll try and find the article and the video. I would show you the orginal website but it has some things on there that aren't appropiate.

EDIT:
Man Comes Back From The Dead

56-Year-Old Man Brought Back To Life After 47 Minutes, 4,500 Chest Compressions And 8 Zaps With Defibrillator

Staff At New York Presbyterian Hospital Pulls Off True Medical Miracle

NEW YORK (CBS)




What happens if your heart stops beating? Is it possible to survive?

CBS station WCBS-TV in New York recently met a Brooklyn man who lived after his heart quit for 47 minutes, and it's all thanks to a team of doctors who refused to give up until they brought him back from the dead.

"These doctors did not stop," Joe Tiralosi said, fighting through tears to find the words to describe his experience. "Without them, and I'm serious when I tell you, I wouldn't be here."

Tiralosi is a medical miracle. He's been to the edge and back, to a place most people don't return from. Now he's at home in Brooklyn, but three months ago he literally died.

"I think miracle best describes it," Tiralosi said.

Tiralosi suffered sudden cardiac arrest. His heart stopped beating for 47 minutes.

"Not a moment goes by that I don't take for granted every second because I know it only takes the blink of an eye to lose your life," he said.

Last week, the 56-year-old father of two returned to New York Presbyterian Hospital to thank the medical team who saved his life and share his story with WCBS-TV.

On Aug. 17, Tiralosi walked into the emergency room feeling sick and disoriented. He collapsed a minute later.

"The doctors themselves were responsible for giving my chance to live again," Tiralosi said.

Doctors Rahul Sharma and Flavio Gaudio led the team who worked on him.

"It's a miracle for which it is difficult to find words," Dr. Gaudio said.

"When Joe came in he was talking. It was his presence when he came in that made us all say we're not going to give up," Dr. Sharma added.

"I felt he had a good pulse with the compressions so part of me thought that we had bought some time," Gaudio said.

It took 4,500 chest compressions and eight shocks from a defibrillator to get Tiralosi stabilized at 11:55 a.m. While his doctors worked frantically to save him he barely remembers anything about that day.

"I kind of remember going out. I knew I was going out and I heard someone call my name, and I just went out," Tiralosi said.

Tiralosi's doctors said only one out of four people survive sudden cardiac arrest. Most die within 10 minutes of heart failure. And of those who survive 30 percent suffer serious brain damage.

WCBS-TV asked "Was there a time after 47 minutes in the room when someone said 'Guys, enough's enough. Time to end it'?

"There were whispers of that but I imagined that he was a man with a family, with a family someplace and I didn't want to go out and tell that family that we had lost him. I had to keep going," said Dr. Gaudio.

A specific procedure helped save Tiralosi's life. Special cooling pads, not available in all emergency rooms, lowered his body temperature to 91 degrees, essential in preventing long-term neurological damage and preserving brain function. Placed in a medically induced coma, incredibly, he began to wake up three days later - without brain damage.

"For me, I was blessed that day. God was with me and brought me here," Tiralosi said.

Doctors restarted Tiralosi's heart but he said it was his family's support that sustained him. His wife, Janet, still can't talk about it. He said he remembers hearing his son Joey's voice when he was still in the coma.

"There was things he wanted to do with me yet, but we hadn't had the chance to do and that I should hang in there," Tiralosi said.

"I would squeeze my daughter's hand. She'd ask me to be tell me how strong I was," Joe Tiralosi said.

"I never really looked at him as a miracle during those weeks because I always had hope," Christina Tiralosi added.

The doctors said Joe Tiralosi's case is one for the record books - one they'll never forget.

"I've never seen this. This is extremely rare. We were all very emotionally involved as well," Dr. Sharma said.

We're happy to report Joe Tiralosi is making steady progress in his recovery.

"I'm not complaining because we know where I've been," he said.

"I just look forward to getting the chance to live a long normal life, and let people know they shouldn't take for granted ever your life and your family because they can be taken away from you so quickly," Tiralosi said.

Tiralosi is going through cardiac rehab right now. The professional chauffeur is working hard to get his life back to normal. He is taking life one day at a time.
(© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Your definiton says in another body...I don't know whether that could come true. I read The Host by Stephanie Meyer. It is about this spirit creature from another planet that wanders from planet to planet until she finally arrives on Earth. Though, she has to have this special treatment in order to survive as other sprirts have died. She is put inside another persons body called Melanie and the spirit hears her thoughts as well as herselfs. Her name from now on is The Wanderer or Wanda for short. She travels to the desert in search for Melanie's boyfriend but a doctor is after her....I'm not going to spoil it. I also bought a book yesterday called Skinned. I've only read a couple of pages. Basically this girl dies in a car accident and then she wakes up and finds that she is a machine that is made to look and feel human. She can't feel any pain and she will never age. People don't understand that underneath she is still the same person. But is she? Can you be human without a body? And is it technically murder to 'kill' a machine...?(Me putting into my own words what is on the blurb) This is all fiction...Maybe it will come real but I don't think it will in our time.

[Hydrin123]

Well, I don't believe in reincarnation. I believe in an afterlife, but not reincarnation.

[10stella]

I am not religious in anyway but in third grade me and my friends were talking about something like that, And we were talking about if we were another life the same age what would we be like? I was a irish girl(which i am) from california, dirty blonde hair blue eyes(have it already) only thing that changed was who my parents were and where i lived i edit later cuz i think my parents home!! ~Stella