Different vision of the Universe(s), Amos. It's natural for the human mind to be unwilling to conceive that it could be simply extinguished- where does all that thought, love, feeling, creativity go? So people naturally gravitate towards ideas that say, hey, you might have been born on December 1 1956 or whatever, but having started you'll go on forever, even if you appear to die on June 12 2029.

Sorry, I see it as childish, greedy and dangerous. Childish because it is wishful thinking, greedy because it craves personal immortality, and dangerous because people have fought wars over the precise details of how you get a good billet after death, and continue to do so.

Notions of reincarnation are not neutral - they have led to indifference to the lot of the poor and disadvantaged (because they deserve it from last time- viz Glen Hoddle), and refusal to engage with injustice because what is one lifetime's suffering compared to eternity?

So I'll stick to my atomism, and the idea that the world is at the level that hurts or pleasures us well reflected by what we see, and that social justice is something that people need to do to each other because that's the way we can all be most comfortable. We don't need fairies or ghosts.