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And how about how as each Doctor dies he is reborn in a new body but is essentially the same?
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I assume the original poster was talking about Dr. Who. The 1st Dr. was played by William Hartnell who was a man in his mid-fifties when he took on the role and died at age 67 a few yrs after leaving it. The BBC had to find a way to continue the show on after that and unlike now days they couldn't just have someone come in and replace a main character like can be done now, so they invented the idea of regeneration as a way of maintaining continuity in the series. The Dr. maintains his knowledge though the face he shows changes.