Talk:The Price of Immortality/@comment-31077845-20170216204409

Well that would mean your original body held your soul, and thus it had to have gone somewhere anyways whether or not you went with it, so it would be kinda like predestination. But in this situation if you're able to go on being "you" without a soul, what was it there for anyways? And if it didn't do anything, why would it be a requirement of this supposed eternal life we're supposed to get after we die? If god's supposed to be all powerful and all knowing, wouldn't he have seen this coming and been able to solve for some "body switching" technicality? Besides, what part of your body holds the soul anyways? Is there some "soul gland" somewhere you have to transplant? We already do transplants so there are already people walking around right now who have parts they didn't start with that are extending their lives, so how much of your original biological equipment is allowed to get replaced before your soul is gone?

Still, the story is fairly good, largely because it brings to mind the idea of human identity and what makes us us regardless of one's stance on spirituality and it had a good ending.