Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia \u2014 A new study has found a relationship\nbetween the cause of a person\u2019s death and the time before a\nreincarnation, or rebirth, claim emerges. It found that after an\nunnatural death, the interval before someone claimed to remember a past\nlife tended to be shorter.<\/p>\n
The study, conducted by a team from the Division of Perceptual\nStudies at the University of Virginia in the United States, analysed\n2,254 case reports associated with past-life memories. In 74% of the\ncases, researchers judged that details of the life described by a person\nmatched the identity of someone who had died.<\/p>\n
The study found that the median time between a person\u2019s death and a\nrebirth claim was 16 months. In cases involving an unexpected death,\nhowever, the interval was 40% shorter.<\/p>\n
Lead author Saeedeh Sadeghi said the team wanted to test the findings\nof earlier research using a larger dataset.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to test the relationship more systematically and see\nwhether it could be explained by cultural or psychological influences.\nTo our surprise, the relationship persisted when we tested it across a\nmuch larger number of cases, and the social and psychological factors we\nexamined could not explain it,\u201d Sadeghi said, as quoted by IFL Science\non Wednesday (21 October 2026).<\/p>\n
The researchers nevertheless emphasised that the relationship was\nrelatively small. It explained only around 2%\u20133% of the variation in the\ntime between a death and a reincarnation claim.<\/p>\n
The study also does not prove that reincarnation actually occurs. The\nresearchers acknowledged that it remains difficult to rule out the\npossibility of information passing between families and communities,\ncultural influences, and bias in identifying matches between past-life\naccounts and people who have died.<\/p>\n
The findings are therefore not strong enough to constitute scientific\nevidence of reincarnation.<\/p>\n
Marieta Pehlivanova, one of the researchers, said she hoped the study\nwould encourage further research into broader patterns rather than\nrelying only on individual cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mechanisms underlying this finding are currently unclear, but\nthat gives us more reason to keep investigating, not to dismiss it,\u201d\nPehlivanova said.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/study-examines-link-between-reincarnation-claims-and-sudden-death-1792630240", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }