Throughout their lives people strive to become someone with a specific identity; be classified as “someone” rather than “nobody”. This classification is best known among high school students. Often youth identities are developed through the activities they participate in, the jock, the cheerleader, the nerd, the band geek. However, people are not the activities they participated in in high school. People graduate, go to university, work to advance their careers, have children. Then, at the ten-year reunion, those same high school jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, and band fanatics gather once again to reminisce about the past. These people are no longer the high school activities of the past nor are these people the activities they currently participate in, their identities now, in this reunion, are judged by something different. The peers at the meeting do not all look the same, but this qualitative identity is not important; a person does not necessarily have to appear identical to be the same person. Yet how do peers judge a person's identity, know that James is still the same James and has survived time, apart from the name tag they wear? Probably, the most sufficient answer to this question of personal identity is the use of the body criterion. The issue of personal identity is based on the issue created in the high school reunion scenario. Personal relationships and often legal disputes are built around knowledge of personal identity; knowing that a specific person is the same person as in past events. To fully explain that a person who existed ten years ago or even yesterday is the same person who exists now, it is necessary to define a criterion that demonstrates the elements of personal identity. Three criteria that ... middle of paper ... even identity is lost after death according to the criterion of memory because memories cannot be evoked correctly after death. Any reproduction of memories, by God or anyone else, would not be caused in the right way. Even if memories could be transported into another entity, the psychological elements of identity could not be. Consequently, the memory/psychological criterion does not allow survival after death. Thus the survival after-death objection does not sufficiently reject one criterion over the other. Personal identity does not reside in the activities a person participates in throughout their life. As argued, personal identity is based on the elements of the bodily criterion. Using the body criterion, classmates at the high school reunion are able to identify James as the same person after ten years even without the name tag he wears..