afterlives
Existences beyond death
Afterlives is the plural of afterlife—existence following death, as conceived in religious or spiritual belief.
The word extends to what remains after something ends: The film explores the afterlives of defunct shopping malls.
A work may have multiple afterlives through adaptations, revivals, or reinterpretations: Shakespeare's plays have had countless afterlives on stage and screen.
Sky or bliss
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
ascension · eternity · resurrection · beatification · glorification · reunion · peace · light
Spiritual or physical regeneration
- samsaraCycle of rebirth
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
- cycleRepeating sequence of events
past-life · return · dharma · moksha · nirvana · enlightenment · liberation · incarnation
State of sentient awareness
- soulInnermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- presenceState of being somewhere
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
identity · essence · continuance · survival · being · sentience · self · persistence
heaven
Sky or bliss
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
transcendence · ascension · eternity · resurrection · beatification · glorification · reunion · peace · light · angels
rebirth
Spiritual or physical regeneration
- samsaraCycle of rebirth
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
cycle · past-life · return · dharma · moksha · nirvana · enlightenment · liberation · incarnation · vessel
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
awareness · identity · essence · continuance · survival · being · sentience · self · persistence · shade
Elysium
Greek afterlife for heroes
Underworld · Sheol · Helheim · Avalon · Styx · Charon · Anubis · Osiris · Cerberus · judgment
offerings
Things presented or given
rituals · prayers · incense · altars · remembrance · lineage · legacy · descendants · honoring · spirits
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Exists or resides
life · lifetime · lifetimes · incarnation · incarnations
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Complete erasure from memory
nonexistence · annihilation · eternal death · nothingness · cessation
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