a character

One of the things I do is write stories. Here's an idea for a character in some s/f story. Every day, they compile a scrapbook of their activities - pictures, annotations, diary entries, memorabilia, audio clips, video, etc etc. The thing is, they have a habit of dying. Every time they die, a large machine grows a new body; this new person is fairly similar in character, as it were, but it's not like we're imprinting memories. And then this new person goes and reads all the scrapbooks in order to get a sense of their past. And then they walk out of the facility and pick up their recently deceased predecessor's live exactly where they left it off. It's a sort of immortality, I suppose.