Building the Panama Canal, 1903–1914. President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmiancanal. Throughout the 1800s,American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
After the Roanoke incident, plans to launch another colony in Virginia started in 1606 when the Jamestown colony was formed nearby. This was the first successful colony in New England.
I believe it is the installment plan. :)
This of course depends entirely on the person in question, but generally speaking people who believe in such things would want to come back as animals somewhere at the "top" of the food chain.