LmB@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoSuicide rates would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven.message-squaremessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down110
arrow-up1240arrow-down1message-squareSuicide rates would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven.LmB@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square140fedilink
minus-squareBurgerBaron@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·15 hours agoI mean I don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
minus-squarelil_baka@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 minutes agoIf you lose all your memories due to amnesia, you will still be you, experiencing reality as you, just with your “hard drive” being wiped.
minus-square「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 hours agoIn that case, people with retrograde amnesia are already dead and we should just consider them a new legal person…
minus-squareRiskable@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours agoYes. That’s actually how that works. If no one can identify you and you have the physical symptoms of amnesia (which can be detected… Sorry fakers!) then you get a new, legal identity.
I mean I don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
If you lose all your memories due to amnesia, you will still be you, experiencing reality as you, just with your “hard drive” being wiped.
In that case, people with retrograde amnesia are already dead and we should just consider them a new legal person…
Yes. That’s actually how that works.
If no one can identify you and you have the physical symptoms of amnesia (which can be detected… Sorry fakers!) then you get a new, legal identity.