afterlife
Also called future life. life after death.
the later part of a person's life: the remarkably productive afterlife of Thomas Jefferson.
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Repairing the body would have ensured that the deceased could continue existing in the afterlife.
An ancient Egyptian mummy was wrapped in an unusual mud shell | Maria Temming | February 3, 2021 | Science NewsIf you sit around considering your own mortality, you’ll be driven to invent stories about an afterlife so that the stories you fashion for yourself can carry on after death.
Everything is awful. Here’s a Q&A with a philosopher about why cats rule. | Sean Illing | January 15, 2021 | VoxHe wakes up on a stairway to the afterlife and runs in the opposite direction, hoping to get back to earth, but instead he finds himself in a place called the Great Before, where he sees how souls are made.
It has a surprising number of applications beyond concerns for a comfortable afterlife.
Vaccines Are the Safest Medical Procedure We Have. Make Your Wager Wisely - Facts So Romantic | Stuart Firestein | December 29, 2020 | NautilusThis was so that in the afterlife, the dead could see and communicate with the living.
See what these animal mummies are keeping under wraps | Helen Thompson | October 6, 2020 | Science News For Students
The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife.
On Transhumanism and Why Technology Is Our Silicon Nervous System | Jason Silva | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSomewhere in the afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.
Crazy Cartography: Artists and Writers Conjure a Slew of Imaginative Maps | Lauren Elkin | April 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLast year, he created the critically acclaimed zombie-apocalypse-in-Riverdale themed title afterlife With Archie.
Lena Dunham and the Renaissance of Archie Andrews (He’s Not Dead Yet) | Hugh Ryan | April 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2011 and 2012, about 40 percent of each published Archie comic went unsold; to date, every issue of afterlife has sold out.
Lena Dunham and the Renaissance of Archie Andrews (He’s Not Dead Yet) | Hugh Ryan | April 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFamilies can visit entire sculpture gardens featuring vivid depictions of what sinners face in the afterlife.
And perhaps it was to a certain remorse in the tutor's mind that Elsmere owed an experience of great importance to his afterlife.
Robert Elsmere | Mrs. Humphry WardWhy refuse a bit of sweetness to a tiny infant, perhaps destined to taste little of it in afterlife?
A Top-Floor Idyl | George van SchaickThe tone that colours our afterlife is often caught in these chance colloquies, and the bent given that shapes a career.
Coningsby | Benjamin DisraeliHe was placed there when about fourteen years old, and appears to have been educated to his own satisfaction in afterlife.
The Life of Daniel De Foe | George ChalmersBefore that 'gold net thrown over all,' all the mistakes of his afterlife seem to me to grow almost insignificant.
The Works of Max Beerbohm | Max Beerbohm
British Dictionary definitions for afterlife
/ (ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf) /
life after death or at a later time in a person's lifetime
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