afterlife

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An expansive exhibition focuses on the Japanese warriors—from their rise as masters of warfare to their domestication as part of the civil service and landed gentry—as well as their long cultural afterlife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Poor Sylvia Plath has found little rest in the afterlife.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

"People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife," she wrote.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 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

But nothing, not his mothers death, not his feelings of awe in a Brazilian rain forest, had given him a faith in the afterlife the way Fanny’s death had done for Emma.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman