afterlife

[ af-ter-lahyf, ahf- ]

/ ˈæf tərˌlaɪf, ˈɑf- /

Also called future life. life after death.

the later part of a person's life: the remarkably productive afterlife of Thomas Jefferson.

Origin of afterlife

First recorded in 1585–95; after + life

The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife.

On Transhumanism and Why Technology Is Our Silicon Nervous System |Jason Silva |April 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.

Crazy Cartography: Artists and Writers Conjure a Slew of Imaginative Maps |Lauren Elkin |April 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In 2011 and 2012, about 40 percent of each published Archie comic went unsold; to date, every issue of Afterlife has sold out.

Lena Dunham and the Renaissance of Archie Andrews (He’s Not Dead Yet) |Hugh Ryan |April 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Families can visit entire sculpture gardens featuring vivid depictions of what sinners face in the afterlife.

Welcome to Buddhist Hell |Nina Strochlic |January 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Arcade Fire kicked off the night with a live performance of “Afterlife.”

The YouTube Music Awards Were Alarmingly Strange and Epically Cool |Kevin Fallon |November 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The last rites freed one from life for an afterlife in which the deceased still watched over the living faithful.

The Civilization of Illiteracy |Mihai Nadin
And well the boy carried out his father's injunction in afterlife.

Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous |Sarah K. Bolton
Why refuse a bit of sweetness to a tiny infant, perhaps destined to taste little of it in afterlife?

A Top-Floor Idyl |George van Schaick
And by that means I will learn where to search for him—how to trace his afterlife.

The Cryptogram |William Murray Graydon
And perhaps it was to a certain remorse in the tutor's mind that Elsmere owed an experience of great importance to his afterlife.

Robert Elsmere |Mrs. Humphry Ward

afterlife

/ (ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf) /

life after death or at a later time in a person's lifetime