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Gather round boys and girls, it’s time to scientifically examine what happens after we die with select excerpts from book #3 in my ever expanding Mary Roach collection.

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You loved Stiff. You were pleasantly revolted by Gulp. So let’s pull back the veil of death and ponder the age old mystery.

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Important questions, all.

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In case you’re wondering… reincarnation nation is India. And since they have the highest number of people who claim to be born again, that’s where Mary began her research.

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This does not bode well. Cheese vagueness is a terrible thing.

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Au contraire Mary. I think the P.P. designation is damn near perfect.

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If that’s not definitive proof of reincarnation, I don’t know what is.

In reading this book we learn culture and religion have a lot to do with the acceptance of past lives, as this ancient Hindu text demonstrates. Live a good life? You will be rewarded. Live a bad life? Well… that’s where things get interesting.

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An eternity of vomit eating?

No one wants that.

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