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afterlife

noun as in life after death

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Repairing the body would have ensured that the deceased could continue existing in the afterlife.

If 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.

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He 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.

This was so that in the afterlife, the dead could see and communicate with the living.

The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife.

Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.

Last year, he created the critically acclaimed zombie-apocalypse-in-Riverdale themed title Afterlife With Archie.

In 2011 and 2012, about 40 percent of each published Archie comic went unsold; to date, every issue of Afterlife has sold out.

Families 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.

Why refuse a bit of sweetness to a tiny infant, perhaps destined to taste little of it in afterlife?

The tone that colours our afterlife is often caught in these chance colloquies, and the bent given that shapes a career.

He was placed there when about fourteen years old, and appears to have been educated to his own satisfaction in afterlife.

Before that 'gold net thrown over all,' all the mistakes of his afterlife seem to me to grow almost insignificant.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to afterlife, such as: heaven, hereafter, immortality, eternity, the great beyond, and the great unknown.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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