Ms. MacLaine: April 14, 2012. As the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic is right now, do you think that these people who are obsessed with the history of this event--many of whom have made it their careers--including film director Jim Cameron--do you think these people are reincarnates from people who died on the Titanic? There are some amazing documentaries on the History Channel right now, and I didn't know that people have made entire careers studying it--and obsessing over it. Historians, passenger records, engineering experts, nautical experts, and of course the popular epic film of Jim Cameron. His whole life is still wrapped up in exploring the site.
What say you? Do you think these people are connected to the event in a real life manner, and came right back?
When I lived in NYC as a young starving artist, I worked for a woman whose grandfater died on the Titanic. She was a mess of a person. And all she would say is, "This destroyed my grandmother." Her grandmother ended up raising the children alone. This woman's mother was one of those kids raised with no father. It all rolled down hill and I realized, first hand, how this disaster was still negatively affecting people's lives.
The anniversary is right now. It seems it is really in the air and on people's minds.
Tess

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/f...gewanted=1&_r=1

From NY Times (Apr. 12, 2012) on artifacts, people, and clothing of the day.

It dawned on me that April 15, 1912 is the last time the word "Titanic" was not associated with the meaning "epic disaster." Prior to that it typically meant extremely large and powerful.