The word "afterlife" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the life that supposedly follows physical death (e.g. "Many cultures across the world have beliefs about an afterlife").
We were caterpillars, greedy worms condemned to toil on earth; the chrysalis was our coffin, but the butterfly's miraculous emergence symbolised the possibility of an afterlife, a chance for our souls to ascend to heaven.
Now Philippa with the weather... Unless you think there's some kind of afterlife (in which case, think harder), the stark inevitability of death is a bit of a niggle.
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While black-garbed goths talked of death and the afterlife, hip-hop artists lived in close proximity to actual death, then were killed, and had their records reissued – perhaps they even knew how it would pan out from the moment they picked up a mike.
It becomes increasingly likely that Lanark is Duncan moving through an afterlife where Glasgow has been translated to a shadowy hell and the failures of his life take on haunting significance.
This performance of Afterlife at the YouTube Music Awards last year is brilliant and totally worth five minutes of your time once you tear yourself away from the countdown.
You could learn all this on Oink, which acted almost as a museum exhibit of Drake's critical afterlife, charting the repeated attempts to cash in on his growing critical and commercial stature.
The skeletons were found buried in a foetal position – the head pointing to the west and the feet to the east according to ancient Egyptian beliefs, surrounded by jars once filled with supplies for afterlife.
The modest 9ft deep shafts held a dozen skeletons of pyramid builders, perfectly preserved by dry sand along with jars of beer and bread for the afterlife.
For another, if spirits of the dead really did survive in some form, we might expect their appearance and behaviour to reflect some kind of eternal unchanging afterlife.
Come my afterlife revolution, in fact, there would be a special circle of hell reserved for history-will-judge-me types, where they would be forced to absorb those very judgments before an audience.
