Afterlife
Afterlife
Afterlife (pronunciation: /ˈæftərlaɪf/) is a concept that refers to the continuation of existence, typically spiritual and experiential, beyond a person's physical death.
Etymology
The term "afterlife" comes from the Old English word "æfterlif," with "æfter" meaning "after" and "lif" meaning "life." It has been used in English since the late 16th century.
Definition
In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the afterlife is an existence in which the essential part of an individual's identity or their consciousness continues to exist after the death of their physical body. According to various ideas about the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, of an individual, which carries with it and may confer personal identity or, on the contrary, may not, as in Indian nirvana.
Related Terms
- Reincarnation: The philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.
- Heaven: A religious or metaphysical place where beings such as gods, angels, spirits, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or live.
- Hell: A place or state of torment and punishment in an afterlife.
- Purgatory: An intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification.
- Nirvana: A transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Afterlife
- Wikipedia's article - Afterlife
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