Throughout life, people strive to become someone with a specific identity; being classified as “someone” rather than “nobody”. This classification is most widespread among high school students. Often, young people's identities are developed through the activities they participate in, the jock, the cheerleader, the nerd, the geek of the group. Yet people aren't the activities they participated in in high school. People graduate, go to college, work for careers, have kids. Then, at the ten-year reunion, those same high school jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, and band geeks come together once again to reminisce about the past. These people are no longer the high school activities of the past and these people are no longer the activities they currently participate in, their identities now, at this meeting, are judged by something different. The peers present at the meeting do not resemble each other, but such qualitative identity does not matter; a person does not have to look specifically similar to be the same person. Yet how can peers judge a person's identity, know that James is still the same James and has survived time, apart from the name badge they wear? It can be argued that the most sufficient answer to this question of personal identity is the use of the bodily criterion. The problem of personal identity centers around the question created in the high school reunion storyline. Personal relationships and often legal disputes are built around knowledge of personal identity; knowing a specific person is the same person from past events. In order to fully explain that a person who existed ten years ago or even yesterday is the same person who exists at this time, one must define a criterion demonstrating the elements of personal identity. Three criteria that... middle of paper ...... identity is also lost after death according to the memory criterion, because memories cannot be provoked in the right way 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 to another entity, the psychological elements of identity could not be. Therefore, the memory/psychological criterion does not allow for survival after death. Thus, the survival after death objection does not sufficiently reject one criterion over another. Personal identity does not reside in the activities a person participates in throughout their life. As we have argued, personal identity is based on the elements of the bodily criterion. Using the body test, peers at the high school reunion are able to identify James as the same person after ten years, even without the name tag he wears..