afterlife

[af-ter-lahyf, ahf-]

noun

1. Also called future life. life after death.

2. the later part of a person's life.

   the remarkably productive afterlife of Thomas Jefferson.

afterlife

/ ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf /

noun

1. life after death or at a later time in a person's lifetime

Word History and Origins

Origin of afterlife¹

First recorded in 1585–95; after + life

Example Sentences

But a decade later, Keaton directed “Heaven,” an entire documentary about the subject, in which she asked street preachers and Don King and her 94-year-old grandmother how they imagined the afterlife.

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Keaton also directed several films, the first of which was a 1987 documentary, Heaven, chronicling people's beliefs about the afterlife.

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"I had internalised these beliefs. I had convinced myself that the afterlife was better and that I desired it."

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And of course the very name of Borderland points to the purgatory-like nature of the realm, not existing in the real world nor in the afterlife.

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“I wanted Ryuji to be a character who embodies this huge question, ‘What is the afterlife?

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Related Words

• hereafter