Essays on Afterlife

Afterlife Position Different religions and cultures have varying views on what happens to the soul or person beyond death. There have also been various experiments and research done to prove whether there is an afterlife, a soul, and the proof of near death experiences. While...

There are over four thousand religions present in our world, each of these belief systems offer their followers guidelines for living their best lives in accordance to the values and ethics of their faith. However along with the reward of heaven or paradise for ones...

Socrates said, “For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils” (Proverbia 2017). It is true, no one knows what...

Imagine yourself as an elderly person lying in the hospital bed, moments away from death, and you think to yourself, where am I going once I die? Life is not a circle, you are born and eventually, you will die. What happens to us when...

Death has been a topic where people hardly ever spoke about, but in recent times, many people have become more open to discussing it. There are many questions arising on what happens next after a person dies. Before I move into my view, I would...

Broken Dream is a complex poem that conveys ideas regarding afterlife, death, loss, power, passing of time and a woman’s beauty. Yeats discusses the beauty of a woman who has grown old now. He features his distinctive affections for her using different images of the...

The Valley of the Kings is where King Tutankhamun and over 60 other kings and pharaohs are buried, but most of the tombs were looted by grave robbers. In 1500 B.C., the Egyptian pharaohs stopped building great pyramids in which some would be buried. Instead...

In The Ransom of The Soul, Peter Brown discusses the emergence and evolution of a relationship between wealth and the afterlife in early Christianity. He presents the argument that by examining the differences between early and later Christians views, we can track the development of...

The undead is becoming or some may say has become a huge subject. Many people are interested in the undead and creating stories with interactions between them and the living. Undead interactions with the living are always going to be a huge topic. Throughout these...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, there is a sizeable collection of ancient Egyptian art. There are many sculptures, statues, pieces of pottery, and paintings that capture and convey the unique, spiritual culture of the time period. One piece in particular,...

Introduction Reincarnation refers to the philosophy or a belief that after the death of an individual, there is a part of his soul or his entire life energy that gets transmuted to other body. The concept of reincarnation is prevelant amongst various major religions that...

Yoruba can refer to the ethnic group that resided in Yorubaland, a cultural region within Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, in West Africa. It can also refer to the language that many of the inhabitants speak within that region. The use of the word Yoruba in...

This essay will demonstrate one similarity and two differences between Buddhism and Islam’s belief of the concept of the afterlife/next life. For example, both belief in reaching the end of one’s life (i.e., for Muslims, one will reach either heaven or hell and for Buddhists,...

“What happens to me in death?”, and other questions pertaining to the afterlife are common in the study of religion. There have been many versions of what the afterlife entails, but no singular conclusive concept of it. This lack of consensus calls into question our...