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Death's plot twist where the ending is just chapter one of a better book.
means The act of being born again or brought back to life, or a renewal so complete it feels like starting over.
from A plain English compound: the prefix 're-, 'again,' bolted onto 'birth,' from Old English 'gebyrd' and rooted in the verb 'beran,' to bear or carry (the same ancient root that gives us 'bear' a child). 'Birth' itself likely came into English under Old Norse influence, a Viking loan that settled comfortably into the language. So 'rebirth' is literally 'a bearing-again' — and it has long carried both the literal sense of new life and the figurative one of spiritual renewal, often shadowing the Latinate twin 'renaissance,' which means the very same thing.
- phoenix myth
- Ancient Egyptians told it 1000 years before Greece copied it
- jellyfish trick
- Turritopsis dohrnii reverts to youth, dodging death indefinitely
- cell turnover
- You replace about 330 billion cells daily
- forest fires
- Some pinecones only open and seed after burning
- word roots
- Renaissance literally means rebirth in French
phoenix arizona — city founded 1881 on ruins of hohokam civilization, rebuilt after near-abandonment in 1930s depression
berlin germany — divided city 1945-1990, reunified and rebuilt as capital of reunited germany in 1991
new orleans post-katrina — city devastated by hurricane katrina august 2005, population rebuilt from 485,000 to 370,000+ by 2020