The development of human life and early childhood death

3 in heaven, purgatory or in hell. Eternal remuneration takes place in Heaven or Paradise, a temporal, limited term of imprisonment with a subsequent pardon in Purgatory or a “life sentence” of imprisonment under aggravated conditions of tortures through ordeals by fire in Hell or Tartarus. This is where repentance is futile and a return impossible. There is no room for discernment of committed mistakes, the will and the opportunity for indemnification and the reintegration of dangerous criminals once they have died. Besides, their otherworldly classification is not determined by the terrestrial lifestyle of the deceased, but depends to a high degree on the effectiveness of priestly ceremonies and specified rites of sacrifice. Such rules contradicted the sense of justice of a lot of people and marred their belief in a loving God. This is the reason why a different view developed quite early, namely the one that human life on Earth is not singular and unrepeatable. Depending on the moral success or failure of a completed life on Earth, the deceased is either immediately or after a longer or less long period of time reborn into a new life on Earth. One talks about rebirth or reincarnation. The form a re-embodiment, for instance into the body of a mature or immature human being with a more or less difficult destiny, depends on the pre-encumbrance of the deceased, respectively of the newborn. Evidence of the re-embodiment hypothesis What can generally be said about the re-embodiment hypothesis is that: There are explicit and manifold messages from the hereafter, so for instance the books by Johannes Greber (1) or Allan Kardec (2) that indicate the possibility of numerous lives on Earth, interrupted by short, but mostly lengthy stopovers in an otherworldly world. Furthermore, there are supportive pieces of evidence right here on Earth that are indeed not as powerful and numerous as the aforementioned pieces of evidence and experiences for the personal survival after one’s terrestrial demise. It happens that small children, when they start to talk at age 1 ½ to 2, assert that they were actually somebody else, that they had different parents and that they lived somewhere completely different. They initially express themselves quite clumsily and in short sentences, mispronounce words and use gestures to underline what they actually want to say (14, P. 14). The older they get and the more comprehensive they vocabulary grows, the more exact their narrations about their past, sensed curricula vitae become. These children accurately talk about their past names, the names of their parents and other relatives from their past life’s history including the kind of death they suffered, in pronounced cases. They describe the environment at that time in great detail and often accurately mention the names of places and even streets. Most of these children demand to be taken to their past parents or at least be taken to see the past environment again. And something that is particularly strange: It happens now and then that such a child asserts to have suffered a violent death in a past life, for instance through an accident or murder and that they display a conspicuous birthmark where they were supposed to have been wounded. Such cases are verifiable and they have been verified (3, 14). The mother of an Indian boy called Ravi Shankar 1951, (not the famous musician) first noticed a birthmark on his throat when he was three to four months old that looked very similar to the healed wound caused by a long knife (14, P. 111). As the boy grew up and began to talk, he asserted to have been the son of a hairdresser by the name of Sri Jageshwar Prasad in the town of Kanauj near Kampur in the district of Chhipatti in a past life. He asserted that he had been murdered with a knife