http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20227400/site/newsweek/

so are you allowed to apply mortality tables to people who are reincarnated - and if so which one?

If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I'm sure that with my luck, I'll come back as a toilet bowl brush.

Well, I hope there is reincarnation. I'm going to need a second lifetime to accumulate enough to actually retire. Now, if I can only figure out how to draft a will that will leave everything I own to myself in my reincarnated life.... Any suggestions?

Belgarath you can't come back as bowl brush- it is inanimate. You have to be animate. The leaves NY sewer rat.

Well that's good news. On the other hand, I might be a politician, so I can hope for the sewer rat. At least SOME people like rats...

including the cat above, but then you can get reincarnated again.

(hmmm. I must be an omeba in disguise, cuz the humor I generate is at tle lowest form of life.)

Hey tom, isn't that simplest not lowest?

I am excluding car dealers and lawyers, of course.

Those Chinese lawyers are way behind the times. Our death tax is nothing but a user fee for reincarnation - and we've had it for years.