hereafter

In medieval Europe, leprosy was seen as a kind of transfigurative suffering: Those with the condition were believed to be so wretched in this life that they were virtually guaranteed respite in the hereafter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

That alone tells me that you’re certainly on the right track, and what you do hereafter can only make it better.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025

In a statement, she said she hoped her hereafter would be filled "with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025

Did Vance’s handshake send Francis to the hereafter, or Berger’s creative hubris?

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025

She feels no obligation to have good thoughts on behalf of her mortal soul in the hereafter, or even the here and now.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

My belief is, anyway, that if there's hereafters for some things, there's hereafters for all.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough

Yet though all this be so, nevertheless, in our own hearts, we mould the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

And instead of the bare brown rafters,   And the snowflakes sifting in, He saw in the glad hereafters,   The home his hands should win.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean

Under the bare brown rafters,   In his garret bed he lay, And dreamed of the bright hereafters.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean