afterlife
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Instead of crossing over into the afterlife, Billy, the magically inclined twin, transferred his soul into the body of William Kaplan, a teenager who had just been involved in a fatal car crash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Locals, for whom it is traditional to touch dead relatives to usher them into the afterlife, have chased off health teams sent to enforce no-contact funeral rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Like your friend, they will tell themselves that they will get around to it, but the afterlife can catch up to them first.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The deeper lesson, though, is that a constitutional right’s popular origins do not guarantee a democratic afterlife.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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