Citations:afterlife

Proper noun: the place inhabited by deceased people

 * 1973, Mandemous, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, 20th Century Fox
 * I really don't hold with knowing the future, even my own, which is short... I mean, if we knew for a fact there was an afterlife, and if the afterlife was bliss eternal, we'd all commit suicide in order to enjoy it.
 * And while most of their conversations are painfully short and masked in static, the woman has reportedly been able to tell him that the afterlife is a wonderful place that's free of pain, disease, want and worry — a literal paradise where the souls of the dead live in perfect peace and harmony forever.
 * 1993, Sleepless in Seattle, Tristar Pictures
 * Jonah: Like, do you believe in heaven? Sam: I never did.  Or the whole idea of an afterlife, but now I don't know, 'cause I have these dreams about her, about your mom.  And we have long talks about you, how you're doing, which she sort of knows but I tell her anyway.  So what is that?  It's sort of an afterlife, isn't it?
 * But you would be happy and maybe a touch envious that they were going somewhere better. What if this place was the case when people died? Many cultures believe that the afterlife is a better place than the mundane world.
 * The afterlife is a relatively mundane place, where even angels have sexual intercourse; there is a Hell but no Satan or devils and Heaven is much like Earth, except peopled by spirits.
 * The afterlife is a crowded place.
 * Well, at least this part of death is jammed. I don't know what — if anything — is beyond The Light.
 * The afterlife is a beautiful place full of gardens and brilliant, pleasing colors. Some accounts are of dark and dismal places where people feel they are being punished for wrongs they committed in life.
 * We all die anyways, but for most of us it's after a long life of hard work and little reward. But what waits for us? The afterlife is a wonderful place with all of the beauty and none of the sorrow of this sad plane, especially for those of us who believe, who have a place there waiting for them.
 * The afterlife is a crowded place.
 * Well, at least this part of death is jammed. I don't know what — if anything — is beyond The Light.
 * The afterlife is a beautiful place full of gardens and brilliant, pleasing colors. Some accounts are of dark and dismal places where people feel they are being punished for wrongs they committed in life.
 * We all die anyways, but for most of us it's after a long life of hard work and little reward. But what waits for us? The afterlife is a wonderful place with all of the beauty and none of the sorrow of this sad plane, especially for those of us who believe, who have a place there waiting for them.
 * We all die anyways, but for most of us it's after a long life of hard work and little reward. But what waits for us? The afterlife is a wonderful place with all of the beauty and none of the sorrow of this sad plane, especially for those of us who believe, who have a place there waiting for them.
 * We all die anyways, but for most of us it's after a long life of hard work and little reward. But what waits for us? The afterlife is a wonderful place with all of the beauty and none of the sorrow of this sad plane, especially for those of us who believe, who have a place there waiting for them.

later life

 * 1) * 1833, E. Biber, “Life and Trials of Henry Pestalozzi”, in Greenbank's Periodical Library, Volume I, T. K. Greenbank, page 8:
 * Pestalozzi had, as a boy, possessed that childlike simplicity in an eminent degree, and now, in the intercourse with nature and with men of primitive habits, he recovered so fully, that whenever in after-life he alluded to the studies of his earlier years, he spoke of them in a manner, as if they were so many recollections of a previous state
 * 1) * 1838, The British cyclopaedia of the arts, sciences, history, geography, literature, natural history, and biography (page 118)
 * Arnold was born in Connecticut, and his early occupations were not fitted to prepare him for the functions which he was called upon to exercise in afterlife.
 * 1) * 1842, “The Prussian Monarchy”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume LI, Number CCCXVII (March 1842), William Blackwood & Sons, page 335:
 * In after life, he grew enormously corpulent, his waistcoat measured four ells!