Ignoring the bad grammar of ending the titular question with a preposition (Down, Bear, down! 🙂 ), how would you come back in the next life, if there is one? Would men want more oesrtrogen and become child-bearers or would the ladies want more testosterone and become hairy hunter-gatherers? Nature has already made her choice. In short, who stays at home to look after the kids?
OZ
Boadicea's Chariot 
Nope. No worries. No probs.
Nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition (or even a proposition, come to that).
Those who criticise the practice are the same mistaken dweebs who believe that there is something wrong with splitting an English infinitive. 😀
Just checking. One has to be so careful these days, such as when the passive subjunctive suddenly jumps up from forty years ago and bites one on the ‘arris. 🙂
OZ
I would actually like to come back as a chameleon; like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, who has this magical, fairytale ability to morph into the opposite sex at random points in time. Best of both worlds, I reckon.
Oooh, Claire! You liberal, you! 🙂
OZ
Not liberal…as such. Liberal is a dirty word these days 😉
Small ‘l’ on my comment. 🙂
Nighty night.
OZ
Yes, I noticed…
I prefer the word, humanist, instead of liberal. 🙂
Night
I would come back as a woman. As a man I’m very limited in what clothes I can wear. Since I would look harrowing in dresses, skirts, and kimonos I leave it for some more deranged people to try.
I’m a Christian, I’m going to be ruptured
Na nana Nah!!! 🙂
I would like the conscious knowledge of all the experiences of my past lives.
Myself again.
A pampered, much-loved cat.
I’m coming back as a wolf (again).
OZ
What? You mean I get a second chance?
I don’t think I want to come back again, the world is going down the pan and I don’t want to be here when it gets flushed away.
rr it wasn’t much cop when I was here the last two times!
There was plenty of aggro then but the weird thing is I was the same person with the same skills.
Suggest you sit out a few hundred years before you accept a re run.
Pseu – Of course you get a second chance. This one is just a trial run. 🙂
Christina – I am trying to imagine who you were in your previous two incarnations. Lady Macbeth? Lucretia Borgia? My mind is boggling.
OZ
Oh, do I *have* to be human? Can’t I be a bird? A peregrine falcon. Would have to conquer my fear of heights though. Stooping from the height of an average step-ladder wouldn’t be much cop.
If human, same again really. I loved the whole business of having kids, the making em, the sweet-smelling babies, the hilarious toddlers, the strong characters developing, the broadening shoulders and broadening horizons.