At 11:48 AM 9/8/97 PDT, you wrote:

OK, here's a weird question for you:
By the time the Holy Grail appears in Sailor Moon S, how many times 
have the Inner Senshi died?  It was once in the original series and then 
once in SM-R, right?  (not including the taking of heart crystals)

Hah!  Whats death to an inner senshi?  Just a glitch in an otherwise
ordinary day.
Still, you'd think repeated deaths would have a psychological effect on
those who suffer it.

Does anyone here remember the first great (in size, if not quality) 
Marvel Crossovers, Secret Wars I & II?  
In the second one, the near-omnipotent Beyonder casually destroys, and 
later just as casually re-creates, the junior X-group, the New Mutants 
(now known as X-Force).
An aftermath issue of that group's comic dealt with the devastation that 
occured in the kids at being manhandled so--Extreme lethargy and apathy, 
almost on a pathological scale.  They go through the motions, but there 
is no life there at all.  Probably one of the better ``reincarnations'' 
I've seen.

I don't think Sailormoon is made for lethargic characterisations.  But it
would be nice if someone wrote a fanfic about the senshi mulling
psychologically over what they have lost during their spells of death....
Surely their minds and souls can't have returned completely intact.  After
all, if I had died and been brought back to life, I'm quite sure I'd look
at things in a whole new way.

"It's all in the mind, you know..." - Wallace Greenslade