afterlife
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Objects placed alongside the dead, including stone tools, animal bones, and pieces of ochre, may also hint at early beliefs about an afterlife.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
The track, The Shadowy Light, paired her unmistakable voice with a cross-cultural ensemble, its imagery of a boatman guiding a soul across unknown waters reflecting on death and the afterlife.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Mr. Bird has history he’d like to forget, but, as Mr. O’Brien notes, he gave so many others memories they’ll always remember, spawning “an afterlife for Indiana State’s one shining moment.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
Poor Sylvia Plath has found little rest in the afterlife.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
The old man enthusiastically described the wealth that filled the pyramids, for the use of the old kings in their afterlife.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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