[ WP ] Reincarnation is a proven fact , and a device has been invented to determine who someone 's pasts lives were . To your horror , you 've just discovered one of your past lives was ...

Sweating profusely, he scanned the list. Sometimes it skipped a hundred years. In other instances he had been born again the very second he died. His own name had been at the top of the list with the rest of the names arranged in reverse chronological order. Wolfgang Müller, Adeshnee Pillay, Sir Arthur Ian McGregor. The names were all over the place, male, female, male. Chinese, some sanscrit text he he could not read. He scanned the list. 
 
 An extremely loud sound made him jump. The man in the cubicle next to him had been shot in the head, blood spattered on the wall. 
 
 So the poor guy had found a bad name, he tought. The sweat trickled down his face. 
 
 The way it worked was like this. The world had been over populated for a long time. When the device was invented, they had a reason to kill people. Just the previous week they killed the reincarnation of good old Adolf Hitler. You had one minute to check your list before they shot you. The reasoning wasnt very transparent but some presumed it had something to do with making peace with the fact. The man just thought they were sadistic. If nobody on your list was an evil historical figure, your current crimes and moral misgivings were compared to those of all your previous incarnations. If you were on a good path, you were free to live the rest of your days, if not, you were shot. 
 
 Over 50 million people had been excecuted already in the two months since the system had been announced. 
 
 The man had an affair with his brother's wife a few years prior. Sweat was pouring down his face now. Ten seconds left, the red clock on the steel table next to the list warned him. 
 
 There might be a chance, he thought. He didnt recognise any of the names and all of them have lead relatively moral lives. A few times he had only been a child when he died, completely pure. 
 
 Five seconds left. 
 
 He was almost at the bottom of the list. A thought occured to him that he must have been an animal before the last name on the list. It stopped about 2000 years ago. He vaguely hoped he had been a bear before the last name, he liked bears. 
 
 Two seconds left. 
 
 He might just make... his heart froze and just before he felt the bullet enter his skull he read the last name on the list. 
 
 Judas Iscariot
