afterlife

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In Dyersville: For the movie “Field of Dreams,” starring Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones, a cornfield is turned into a ballfield for a story about baseball players in the afterlife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Other times, such as the surreal world of the donkey afterlife, I thought of the colorfully unpredictable universe of the music-focused game “The Artful Escape,” a quest for personal identity and self-actualization.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

After she was murdered as a young woman, Jill was, in her words, “elevated” to the role of a comforter, whose task is to aid the dying in their transition to the afterlife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

In the story, our devices become a gateway to another world — or, rather, a halfway point between our universe and the afterlife.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

Swedenborg, an eighteenth-century scientist and male mystic, had described the afterlife as a circular “world of spirits.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock