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“Have you ever been at a party and someone asked you, by way of pretending to be conversational, “If you could spend a year on a desert island with 5 people from history, who would you chose?”

Now you can spend the rest of eternity with some of famous celebrities – if you can find any.

When you’re dead, how do you communicate with other spirits? This is a good question. This is also a question that you must answer before you will be able to find celebrities to hang out with.

There are many, many variables involved here: some celebrities you might like to hang out with may have returned to Earth long ago.

Maybe they already lived 17 more lives as other identities since having lived as the celebrity you are familiar with. During those lifetimes they may not have become famous.

What if you met Napoleon, but you don’t speak French?

What if the celebrity forgot that they were a celebrity in a previous life and changed careers? Like Elvis. What if he went back to Earth and became a used car salesman in Iowa or a truck driver in Bangladesh?

One of the most famous people in history was Sir Isaac Newton. What if Isaac spent his next 4 lives as a horse? Or, what if he’s still hanging around the tomb where his body is buried at Westminster Abbey?

Newton’s monument can be seen in Westminster Abbey. It was executed in white and grey marble. The monument features a figure of Newton reclining on top of a sarcophagus, his right elbow resting on several of his great books and his left hand pointing to a scroll with a mathematical design.

Above him is a pyramid and a celestial globe showing the signs of the Zodiac and the path of the comet of 1680. The Latin inscription on the base translates as:

“Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colors thus produced. Diligent, sagacious and faithful, in his expositions of nature, antiquity and the holy Scriptures, he vindicated by his philosophy the majesty of God mighty and good, and expressed the simplicity of the Gospel in his manners. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race! He was born on 25 December 1642, and died on 20 March 1727.”

If someone built a monument for you and said all those nice things about you on your gravestone?

Perhaps he was tempted to hang around there and bask in the glory of his own mythology!

Or, since he was such a smart guy, maybe he figured out how to break the cycle of birth, death and rebirth and went somewhere “over the rainbow” where he could enjoy a more pleasant existence.”

— Excerpt from the book 1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU’RE DEAD, by Lawrence R. Spencer