Recycling: the process of converting waste into something of value. Once discarded on a construction job site marked "unusable", this pile of 2x4's was then re-purposed into makeshift shelving. After a few months the extraneous storage was no longer required but rather than face rot and decay this lumber has once again been given renewed life as a beautiful garden chair.
The concept of re-incarnation deals with the process of the living flesh passing from one life form to another through the cycle of death and re-birth until finally achieving what Eastern Philosophies refer to as "Moksha" or Freedom from "Samsara", the stage of Enlightenment.