It's true: Life after death!

Opines that the only scientific basis for believing in reincarnation is the fact that many of the atoms in our bodies may have been part of the body of someone else long since dead. The immortality of our atoms, but not of ourselves; Excerpted from 'How and Why We Age.'

By Leonard Hayflick, published on September 01, 1994

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"Many of the atoms in our bodies my have been part of the body of someone else long since dead. This is the only scientific basis for believing that we, the living, represent a form of reincarnation. When we die, our atoms will dissipate into the environment and, perhaps, some will become part of another human in a continuing pattern of recycling atoms. You could argue that this is good scientific evidence for fife after death! Our atoms are immortal, but we are not. The catch is what is meant by 'we.' Upon death, our concept of self is gone forever, regardless of where our atoms came from, or where they will go."