[GreenHornet]

I don't know what to make of this particular story, but whenever you hear stories about people being regressed to past lives, there seems to be a common theme: The person, in their "former life", always seems to have died under violent circumstances, and usually, while participating in some well documented historical event. The person will claim to have once been a Union soldier killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, or a knight killed during the Crusades, or something along those lines. You never hear about a person who is regressed back to a past life, and describes themselves as sitting on the front porch reading the paper, when they suddenly keel over and die from a heart attack.

[LibWhacker]

Everybody knows that's cause the heart attack cases are reincarnated on Alpha Centauri, not Earth! ;-)

[Grassblade]

I’ve done a lot of searching on this topic and of the ones I found that were recorded by doctors most of the occurrences were violent deaths. I have a thought on this. Since these are ‘Memories’, and if someone’s last moments were sudden and/or unexpected it would create a very pronounced memory in their mind.(even if they survived they’d remember it). These cases that seem to be so unevenly revealed as violent deaths, logically should be more common.

When someone dies of a long, slow terminal illness, they simply lie there groaning in pain, so there final memories aren’t violent, exciting or action packed.

If someone dies of a heart attack on their front porch their memories would be more of confusion.

If consciousness is in fact a form of energy, and energy is never lost, then we have something to at least investigate.