life after death
Beyond the grave
Life after death is the belief or concept that existence continues in some form beyond physical death—whether as an immortal soul, reincarnation, or spiritual presence.
The phrase appears in religious and philosophical contexts: Many religions promise life after death.
It also names the general topic of what, if anything, follows dying: She spent years researching life after death.
- deathlessnessQuality of being eternal
- resurrectionRevival from death
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- eschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
- final judgmentConclusive court resolution
moksha · karmic cycles · hereafter · afterworld · other side · great beyond · transmigration · rebirth · ancestral worship · heaven · pearly gates · purgatory · Sheol · eternity · soul · salvation · samsara · paradise
- Biblical Afterlifeheaven, paradise, Hades, Gehenna, lake of fire
- Islamic afterlifehereafter, reckoning, scales of justice, heaven and hell, trumpet blast
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- immortalityimmortality, immortals, deathlessness, agelessness, undying
- big questionsexistence of God, free will, good versus evil
- resurrectionrisen, bodily resurrection, resurrection of the dead, revive, reanimate
life after deathoblivion
Complete erasure from memory
annihilation · nonexistence · nothingness · extinction · void
life after deathfinality
State of conclusive completion
oblivion · annihilation · nonexistence · mortality · dust to dust
life after deathmortality
State of eventual death
materialism · physicalism · naturalism · nihilism · atheism
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