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worldbuilding prompt 

So I had an interesting concept come to mind earlier:

Say in this universe reincarnation happens on a fixed time cycle, each soul is reincarnated every 120 years on the dot. That's not normally a problem, because the longest-lived people don't tend to live that long. What happens when medicine gets so advanced that the first person lives to be over 120 years old?

worldbuilding prompt | quite dark 

@Felthry Possible answers:

-The next morning people find a newborn where the old person was.

-The reincarnation happens and the old body becomes some form of zombie. People panic about an apocalypse but it turns out zombie murder victim corpses have to turn 120 to reanimate into more zombies. Takes the escalation aspect a way a little. :P

-Inverse plurality?

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