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* The "ghosts" in the ''[[GURPS]]'' setting ''[[Transhuman Space]]''.

* "Nybor's Psychic Imprint" spell in ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' (at least, 3rd ed).

* ''Cyberpunk ~~2020~~'' has the "Soulkiller" program, which would copy the victim's personality ~~onto~~ a sufficiently powerful mainframe and then kill the victim's physical body. Alt Cunningham, the program's creator, became its first victim when she had finished writing Soulkiller for evil [[Mega Corp]] Arasaka and they decided they didn't need to have her running around anymore.

* ''[[Cyberpunk (role-playing game)|Cyberpunk]]'' has the "Soulkiller" program, which would copy the victim's personality. Early versions needed a sufficiently powerful mainframe and would then kill the victim's physical body. Alt Cunningham, the program's creator, became its first victim when she had finished writing Soulkiller for evil [[Mega Corp]] Arasaka and they decided they didn't need to have her running around anymore. Overlaps with [[And I Must Scream]]. It's not perfect, though, as if the target has been dead long enough, the engram will be limited like a chatbot rather than a fully-aware person; see {{spoiler|Jackie}}. Also, certain kinds of full 'Borgs, especially combat models, can be used with brain canisters that store a person's memories/soul which can be swapped between the combat cyborg body and a "normal" one.

** Overlaps with [[And I Must Scream]].

** Also, certain kinds of full 'Borgs, especially combat models, can be used with brain canisters that store a person's memories/soul which can be swapped between the combat cyborg body and a "normal" one.

* ''[[Car Wars]]''. Autoduelists store their memories on a machine and have clone bodies made. If they die in the arena, their memories are "played back" into their clone and they live again (well, sort of).

* Extremely common in ''[[Eclipse Phase]]''. Most of the surviving population of the solar system escaped the devastation of Earth by uploading their minds off-world, and backups are ubiquitous. Unfortunately, there's also a severe shortage of bodies, and millions of info-refugees desperate to own one.

** Also, almost every biological body (since you can inhabit artificial ones too) comes equipped with a Cortical Stack, and as in the ''Takeshi Covacs novels'', they are nearly indestructible barring a deliberate attempt to destroy them. One might wonder if ''Altered Carbon'' inspired the authors of ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' in some way. (Then one notices the blatant [[Shout-Out]] in the opening fiction and knows it ''definitely'' did.)

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