Reincarnation
Explanation
The Joke
A couple in bed discusses reincarnation. One asks, "Do you believe in reincarnation?" The other says no. When pressed on whether it could be supernatural, the skeptic systematically dismantles the concept: you die and are reborn with no memory of your past life -- but that is just regular dying. If a scientist came to you and offered to "wipe your brain and give it to a new baby," you would not call that reincarnation either. Even if residual memories remained, the skeptic notes this would just mean a new person exists with your memories reduced to a few words -- "that's still just being dead."
The skeptic concludes that people who believe in reincarnation like to think they will never truly cease to exist. In the final panel, showing people outdoors under a night sky, someone says, "The internet gave us that and everyone hates it" -- pointing out that the internet does literally preserve fragments of people's existence indefinitely, and nobody finds that comforting at all.
The Humor
The humor operates through a philosophical reduction: every version of reincarnation, when examined closely, turns out to be functionally identical to just dying. The comic methodically strips away the comforting elements of the belief until nothing remains. But the real punchline is the comparison to the internet -- which actually does what reincarnation promises (preserving fragments of your identity, your words, your thoughts beyond your death) and yet this digital afterlife is treated as a nuisance rather than a spiritual comfort. The joke suggests that what people really want from reincarnation is not the preservation of information about themselves but the continuation of subjective experience, which no technology can provide.