[text]

[smarterthandad]

A question, which is only going to get philosophical if you insist on taking it there.

What are the methods by which someone returns from the dead in your home universe? (Neglecting trivial cases like reappearance after presumed death, resuscitation prior to brain death, etc.)

These are the ways I know it's happened in my universe. I've neglected to enumerate the examples of each or the list would be much longer:

1. Inadequately understood alien technology/biology
   
2. Inadequately understood future technology
   
3. Inadequately understood cosmic forces/natural laws
   
4. Consciousness/brain pattern transfer (technological, psychic, sorcerous)
   
5. Other sorcery
   
6. Demonic intervention
   
7. Divine intervention
   
8. Reality manipulation
   
9. Vampirism
   
10. "Zombie" infection leading to arrested post-mortem cell degradation and continued consciousness
    
11. Techno-organic infection
    
12. Resuscitation after cryonic or other stasis (intentional or accidental)*
    
13. Mutant or other superhuman ability (used on self or others)
    
14. Retrieval/voluntary return from alternate state of post-mortal existence
    
15. Alternate timeline collapse/intervention

*I strongly suspect the process used here falls under this category.

I'm interested in whether I've missed something, and in finding out which universes have which methods. For example, do some have purely mystical means vs. some purely technological?

[note that it hasn't occurred to Val that "people don't come back" is an option]

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[walkingballpit]

Are you bored?

[text]

[smarterthandad]

Not really, why?

voice.

[heralding]

Reincarnation with memories intact.

[At least, that had been the intention. Lightning still doesn't know if it worked.]

This would be done with little assistance from any kind of divine intervention. Instead, it'd be possible thanks to ... special abilities granted, in order to ensure that these new souls could be reborn with their lives intact.

I'm not certain how you'd categorize that.

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[huitzilin]

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[walkingballpit]

[ Because you sat there typing all of that out. ]

The bookstore had Young Earth coloring books in its kids science section.

[text]

[smarterthandad]

[Ugh, mystical stuff.]

14, I guess.

[huitzilin]

Raelly really smart!!! ;)

[smarterthandad]

Not helpful, Aracely.

[smarterthandad]

[dictation software, loser]

You must be in Heropa.

[huitzilin]

Well I dunno. I just know that I was almost dead once.

does that count?

I remember I didn't want to die but I think i did die.

[walkingballpit]

[ It doesn't work right for him. It's his powers (he denies he has that much of a New England accent). ]

You must be some kinda genius.

I bought them for you.

[walkingballpit]

I know.

voice.

[darkspider]

[What a shitty thing to see at work. Kaine doesn't want to think about how he died. Or how he came back. Or any of that.

But that Aracely's adding to it—]

What—Aracely, don't tell her anything.

voice.

[darkspider]

Don't you have more important things to do?

[text]

[smarterthandad]

I'm doing them. That's what dictation software is for.

[smarterthandad]

[not that off-the-shelf garbage, gosh]

All my tables are level already, Mr. Robbie.

[huitzilin]

Maybe shes trying to figure something important out.

TEXT.

[huitzilin]

What's wrong???? I think it's ok, Valeria and I are friends.

[ but she won't speak any further, not if Kaine is that hesitant. ]

[walkingballpit]

[ He can update the firmware on his xBox? He's not a computer guy. Ask him how to change a tire instead.

But he laughs at that. ]

I was expecting more nerd rage. Maybe I'll juxtapose pages from them with pages torn out of textbooks and enter them in an art competition. I'll call it "Educational".

[smarterthandad]

Whether or not grade schoolers understand deep time is low on my priority list.

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[doesthemath]

[Wanda would like to think that if someone managed to take her father out, or at least versions of him like her father back home, he'd stay dead. Having him come back from the "dead" once before was enough for her.]

With presumed deaths already ruled out, people don't come back to life in my world. Does your list reflect methods from your world alone or from various others you've learned about?

text;

[smarterthandad]

Just my world.

[The hilarity of the Scarlet Witch, of all people, having this discussion is...mostly lost on Val, really. She doesn't have much of a sense of humor.]

voice;

[diociopath]

9, and also 10. Vampires can create zombies from corpses.

[text]

[smarterthandad]

Okay, that's a new one by me.

text;

[doesthemath]

[It's lost on Wanda as well, having not been informed yet of all of her counterpart's history.]

Considering your mention of mutants means we're from worlds that are more closely aligned than others, it's curious that your world should have so many possible avenues to resurrection while mine has none, or at least none yet discovered. If I might ask, which universe exactly is yours?