afterlife

Are the summoned souls drawn from the afterlife, or are they memories and images conjured from what remains of them in the world of the living?

He writes of his “newfound belief that an afterlife is a realistic possibility”—not phrasing an ordinary believer would use—and observes that “I may not have the gift of faith.”

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.

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

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