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Preparing for the afterlife The central tenet of ancient Egyptian mummification was preservation of a perfect body, so that it could enter into the afterlife as a complete entity.
But more than that, I was pleased by the show's ultimate approach to the afterlife, namely its conviction that the afterlife cannot be permanent without inevitably becoming a kind of hell.
But boy, am I happy it's back in the afterlife.
I want to give them their privacy in the afterlife.
That's why TV is fixated on death and the afterlife.
This way of dealing with the afterlife is more practical.
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The Good Place obviously deals with versions of the afterlife.
Ever thought about walking like an Egyptian into the afterlife?
The subjects include spirit realms, esoteric wisdom and the afterlife.
He offers out-of- body experiences and journeys to the afterlife.
RIP, Sandor Clegane; may many chickens await you in the afterlife.
RIP, Sandor Clegane: May many chickens await you in the afterlife.
Here's what cinema has told us to expect in the afterlife.
That, Gordon, is a giant crispy pork ladder to the afterlife.
Just sad mummies who spent the afterlife  soaking in poop water.
In other words, the afterlife is a direct product of life.
"It was a matter of death and the afterlife," writes Enrigue.
Her misty abstract paintings evoke the galaxy, the cosmos, the afterlife.
So read on and save your juice cleanse for the afterlife.
Will my Sadness Lamp help me reign eternally in the afterlife?
Mr. Goodall did not believe in the afterlife, the organization said.
Couldn't he tell her as a Force-ghost in the afterlife?
"I don't want him chasing me in the afterlife," Laius says.
The Black Panther movie establishes the MCU's Wakandan connection to the afterlife.
Which, I suppose, would be comforting if I believed in the afterlife.
"In Egypt, it's all about looking good for the afterlife," Thomas says.
"This is a message sent to us from the afterlife," he said.
It may even have been seen as a way into the afterlife.
Hopefully, there's unlimited bread, ribs, and hundred dollar bills in the afterlife.
That's why the book doesn't talk about before birth or the afterlife.
If we could only carry our phones with us to the afterlife.
"Do you believe in the afterlife?" she asks Shadow in the clip.
His first novel, "Absolution," investigated the afterlife of apartheid in South Africa.
Among the Many Items Joining King Tut In the Afterlife ... Four Socks?
More so, it was the journey of a being, including the afterlife.
This is the Jewish view of the afterlife: Don't count on it.
My faith is not tied to some divine promise about the afterlife.
Maybe we would even be jammed together like sardines in the afterlife.
Even from the afterlife, Mackk remains a source of inspiration and guidance.
But I didn't go in with any particular belief about the afterlife.
Intentionally or not, games contain implicit messages about purpose, free will, the afterlife.
"You weren't even wearing them!" she'd say, painfully practical, even in the afterlife.
The afterlife of a meme, like most entities on the web, is infinite.
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Or even "San Junipero," which offered a delicate, beautiful perspective on the afterlife.
Hope he's getting wasted in the afterlife with the Red God right now.
And the Puritans had their own way of scaring Christians with the afterlife.
"I hope to see you in the afterlife," he says on the video.
His character reappeared in the afterlife in a "Homicide" TV movie in 2000.
I could soon be joining her mother in the afterlife, leaving her parentless.
Sometimes the family designate a son to save the family in the afterlife.
Reeves gave an honest, poignant answer when asked about death and the afterlife.
One funeral guest describes the buffalo as the "entry ticket" to the afterlife.
In the afterlife—just as on Earth—there will be people of color.
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The afterlife in "The Good Place," on the other hand, is deliberately artificial.
He finds Evie in the afterlife, staying active as an anti-government protester.
What might we tell our children when they express fear of the afterlife?
On his own rock, yards away, he rises and walks into the afterlife.
And how do you feel about the series' ultimate redesign of the afterlife?
Alexandra told Nicholas that Rasputin continued to pray for him from the afterlife.
Was NBC jittery about the religious implications of a show about the afterlife?
Did you take comfort in the idea of the afterlife in The Discovery?
A decade later, in the afterlife, it feels like I can't be killed.
It almost feels unfair to say that I'm happy it's back in the afterlife.
Dead characters from a popular Netflix show binge-watching TV together in the afterlife?
True happiness was now something to be attained in the afterlife, not on Earth.
Though the show takes place in the afterlife, that's not what it's really about.
Michael Schur is not the first writer to create a comedy about the afterlife.
You too can think creatively about the afterlife of your own at-home props.
This past year, I asked Jonas Mekas, now 96, about death and the afterlife.
Daenerys' season 2 vision actually hints at this reunion with Khal Drogo in the afterlife.
What if the afterlife is neither total universal awareness nor void, but an alien world?
How can anyone be so sure about the existence of social media in the afterlife?
Don't waste time trying to answer questions about the afterlife, instead just live your life.
And it undermines the film's core question about the afterlife by allowing purgatorial wiggle-room.
"This will enrich our knowledge as Egyptologists about the belief of the afterlife," Hawass said.
This is a show about the afterlife, but it's designed to be accessible for everyone.
Sabrina's mom has also made a decision: She's ready to move on into the afterlife.
And on The Good Place, a 22-minute sitcom about the afterlife, they finally do.
So we have Jesus' word telling us about the afterlife, and the resurrection showing us.
But let me share another way that helps those struggling with doubts about the afterlife.
Come Sunday juxtaposes the sins of this world with those that pertain to the afterlife.
Joe Avella: Houdini was obsessed with séances, attempting to reach his mother in the afterlife.
The Good Place was once a show about how to live better in the afterlife.
For some people, transitioning to the afterlife may be preferable to an encounter with Bozo.
Now, some 3,000 years into the afterlife, Nesyamun can once again be heard  — sort of.
" Simpson responds by laughing and saying, "I would have to introduce you in the afterlife.
"I'm in the afterlife already," she told me one day, her hands covered in paint.
Mr. Henry is, depending on your belief in the afterlife, a seer or a charlatan.
The possibilities that the show raises, like the afterlife, have been a comfort for Mrs.
This is true of the afterlife of Jacobs's ideas, whatever flavor we take them in.
Or more probably, it means Daenerys will die and reunite with him in the afterlife.
Pixar's new animated movie "Coco" is a sumptuous portrait of Mexico's infatuation with the afterlife.
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I actually died when I heard the news, and I'm actually writing this from the afterlife.
This indicates some kind of connection to the afterlife, as if the demons were hell-sent.
You'd think even the most persistent breakouts wouldn't be able to follow you into the afterlife.
There are, of course, at least as many versions of the afterlife as there are religions.
Everyone hopes they will go to heaven and reach some type of nirvana in the afterlife.
The Ancient Egyptians used to immaculately decorate coffins/sarcophagi to ensure safe passage into the afterlife.
Of course, in Ms. Jones's universe, there's a possibility of becoming a star in the afterlife.
If you believe people have souls, a C-section is probably good preparation for the afterlife.
"You're not asking me about the afterlife," he said with that mischievous glint in his eyes.
As pièce de démoniaque résistance, she breaks up with Jason, the loveliest boy in the afterlife.
And here is where religion, mankind's primary search for immortality and the afterlife, enters the picture.
If you forget who you are there's a desk in the afterlife meant to retrieve you.
Over the past few years, humorous interpretations of the afterlife have become a viably eccentric TV subcategory.
Jesus' first listeners heard not a parable about salvation in the afterlife but about economics in present.
That sounds morbid, or possibly extremely goth, but her interest wasn't in the afterlife nor the aesthetics.
In another, Fred's dead relatives come to his house, demanding that he join them in the afterlife.
Nostalgia and despair form the emotional undercurrent of these stories about the afterlife of an immigrant childhood.
A zombie who decides the afterlife isn't for her, and returns to win back her husband's heart.
The show, which just launched its third season, is a high-concept fantasy sitcom about the afterlife.
Characters we thought were long gone return, whether in the afterlife or living far off in seclusion.
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He fell asleep last night and just never woke up, making a peaceful transition to the afterlife.
To Talbert, these messages are a way to reach out and support her kin from the afterlife.
The Body Farm was apparently traumatic enough to convince Ozzy to adjust his plans for the afterlife.
Ms. Woodruff also said she could only imagine what Ms. Ifill might be doing in the afterlife.
Instead, the story goes far beyond selfie culture to questions of mortality, the afterlife and self-worth.
Here he riffs on parenting, pokes fun at Elon Musk and shares his vision of the afterlife.
Season 2 of this brilliant, inventive comedy about the quirky realities of the afterlife is now streaming.
To visit them is to clock up frequent flier points for a final trip to the afterlife.
A new Halloween decoration proves that even in the afterlife, we'll all be obsessed with our phones!
They apologize for hurting their parents but promise to make it up to them in the afterlife.
The only explanation, it seemed, was that they believed martyrdom would unite them again in the afterlife.
It's an ode to the afterlife and a reminder that death is nothing to be afraid of.
Crowding their feet are toys and snacks left by parents to comfort their children in the afterlife.
No. When you ask what memory is, there's a lot of concern with memory in the afterlife.
But first he must face seven judges in the afterlife who review key moments in his existence.
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Along with the film's embrace of the afterlife, the use of Spanglish dialogue is a refreshing surprise.
It's funny, because we've talked about the afterlife a bit in talking about this movie, and when you examine a lot of views of the afterlife, some of them feel like this duality of the best thing you can think of versus the worst thing you can think of.
And at least this created a memory that will last a lifetime — and maybe even into the afterlife.
"The Afterlife album took ages to evolve out of the ZU goo," Bandleader Nic Oogjes explained via email.
The afterlife exists exclusively as a means to a narrative end, a tool to progress Will's personal growth.
Alas, while we never quite got #JusticeForBob, that doesn't mean that Astin's character is miserable in the afterlife.
In this version of the afterlife, torture, like its cousin the office job, takes place between 9-5.
To do so can interfere with the journey to the afterlife, keeping their souls connected to this world.
Based on Season 1 and Season 2, the moral sorting system of the afterlife is pretty forked up.
After all, knowing you've got each other's backs — even into the afterlife — can only make your bond stronger.
What would be a more poetic end to the show than Rebecca's spirit greeting Jack in the afterlife?
What if the afterlife really does work like this and not in accordance with any major organized religion?
It's a half-hour network comedy chronicling the afterlife of a reprehensible young woman named Eleanor (Kristen Bell).
"The Good Place" continues to unearth the kinds of mistakes that can make the afterlife a living hell.
" Tearfully, he imagines Mr. O'Connor in the afterlife: "Does he know, God, how much I think of him?
If New York overcame the hard scrabble '70s, the afterlife of Mr. Grooms's masterpiece has been more fraught.
To distract him from chemotherapy, we swapped poems, plays, rants, jokes, spiritual questions and dreams of the afterlife.
When Death pays an unexpected visit, Jedermann scrambles to find a companion for his journey to the afterlife.
A Ghost Story casts the afterlife as something we shape during life, shaded by our regrets and loves.
A millionaire who lays a spread for fellow Muslims breaking fast is making an investment in the afterlife.
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When he finally healed, after about a month, he had a thought about life — or, rather, the afterlife.
Though the walls in their tomb were bare, the coffins were embellished with beautiful hieroglyphics of the afterlife.
Writing, Erdman said, developed in order to name things, to count things, and to communicate in the afterlife.
In the afterlife, the boy meets the ghosts of other black boys, including the spirit of Emmett Till.
Soon he has targeted a cheerful high schooler (Kim Go-eun) so that he may reach the afterlife.
The pope insists that true believers stop crying at funerals, which completely jives with Catholicism's view of the afterlife.
They surrounded her body with meals for the afterlife, even placing a bag of pine nuts on her chest.
And, unfortunately, in the afterlife might be the only chance I have to get close to that sonorous sound.
She is soon drawn into the parallel universe of the afterlife, where she learns secrets about her own family. 
Taken as little more than that, this can be a comforting alternative to other religions' views on the afterlife.
This is why Russian Doll is destined to join the growing slate of recent great comedies about the afterlife.
But the striking thing about the first episode of the third season premiere is the amorality of the afterlife.
He might die, and if he dies, he will be poor because money does not exist in the afterlife.
When I arrived, I understood my journey was the process of dying and this hallucinatory purgatory was the afterlife.
Saidiya Hartman was awarded for "tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life," according to the MacArthur Foundation.
Two others, though, came in from a different angle, by exploring territory most commonly linked with religion: the afterlife.
Whoever this man was, someone took care to ensure that his journey to the afterlife was an enjoyable one.
Pac's death and continued impact in the afterlife has made straying from hero-worship around him a punishable offense.
Critic's Pick In the glamorous little corner of the afterlife that Trevor Copeland built, heaven is a nightclub stage.
In life, he could always find his way home, so why did he not visit us in the afterlife?
Ramzan is also the month to invest in the afterlife: The returns are supposed to be much higher then.
They are meant to bring earthly comforts to ancestors in the afterlife, whether cars, motorbikes, kitchen utensils or smartphones.
Couples linked for eternity by matrimony stand before what look like twin coffins, continuing their quarrels into the afterlife.
"There's no evidence that you really need the wealth in the afterlife," he said during his talk at Rensselaer.
Ancient Egyptians mummified humans to preserve their bodies for the afterlife, while animal mummies were used as religious offerings.
Talking about the afterlife, or about God, might be more than some of his flock are ready to hear.
" Medical doctors and neuroscientists writing about these issues claim that N.D.E.s offer "evidence for the afterlife" and "consciousness beyond life.
And a pair of guileless, elderly Jewish parents (Jeannie Berlin and Ken Stott) who have opposing views on the afterlife.
The video was short but never-ending, documenting the afterlife of electronics in a form that resembled a catchy commercial.
Blasting someone with radiation to expose them to another dimension sounds a lot like Desmond getting blasted into the afterlife.
With his vaguely described mind-mapping machine, Dr. Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford) has successfully proven the existence of the afterlife.
Together, Will and Isla find themselves at the forefront of Dr. Harbor's newest mission: mapping the terrain of the afterlife.
"I became more interested in this grain that was deemed worth taking to the afterlife by early Egyptians," he said.
Belief in the afterlife seems to preclude an understanding that walkers are not people with souls, but merely animated flesh.
Jacqueline Kennedy is also the central figure in Michael J. Hogan's new study, "The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy" (Cambridge).
According to spiritual coach and psychotherapist, Matthew Engel, there is a reason people avoid thinking about death and the afterlife.
In the playbill, Mr. Miyagi points out the similarities between Ms. Miano's play and the Japanese vision of the afterlife.
This further suggests that the deaths of the children were ritualistic, meant to accompany the dead Vikings in the afterlife.
But he always had a very interesting kind of clinical take, psychiatrist take on the afterlife, whether there was an afterlife.
Robert Redford plays a scientist who discovers irrefutable proof of the afterlife, a discovery that kicks off a rash of suicides.
Another spoiler: The mad scientist, Happ, had been drowning his captives repeatedly and trying to document their experiences in the afterlife.
Instead, he runs what is essentially a cross-border funeral agency—finding Hong Kong people spaces for the afterlife in Guangzhou.
A few people screamed when Ernest lumbered in; one man fainted, unable to bear such a close encounter with the afterlife.
Age is negatively correlated: the younger people are, the more likely they will let their imaginations of the afterlife run wild.
The comedic potential of morality in the afterlife has been exploited before, in "Dead Like Me" (2003-2004) and "Beetlejuice" (1988).
Under church teachings, the rituals provide the deceased a choice in the afterlife to accept or reject the offer of baptism.
Jeremy Couillard navigates you through the afterlife in rebirth_redirect: you experience watching yourself leave your body and traverse an unfamiliar cosmology.
The two are discussing their thoughts on the afterlife, and Laura tells Shadow that she doesn't believe in life after death.
Well, maybe Ms. Evers (Mare Winningham), who, shattered by the Countess' crossover into the afterlife, pours her heart out to March.
I'm sure there are videos showing those people being tortured in the afterlife for wearing so few clothes in this world.
There are powerful magical spells and martial abilities beyond the knowledge of the human that must be wrested from the afterlife.
His most recent creation is the sweetly trippy series " The Good Place ," in which the workplace in question is the afterlife.
The afterlife is an old room in the house of the human imagination, and the ancients loved to offer the tour.
Just about every culture has come up with an explanation of where our souls go and what the afterlife looks like.
Heaven and the afterlife were on Craig Green's mind, and also angels — the everyday kind like nurses and home care attendants.
Biden would be pushing 110 years old when he'd have to check (likely from the afterlife) on how his policy did.
In "Stiff," Mary Roach's hilarious, enlightening collection of essays, the author reports from the field about the afterlife of the body.
We make sacrifices today to earn rewards tomorrow, whether in this life or in the afterlife promised by so many religions.
And also, whether or not the afterlife is basically reasonable, the world we live in right now is most certainly not.
He told Mackenberg that for $25 he could teach her to access the afterlife by gazing into a bowl of water.
And the blue-eyed cat at the back left looks like it saw some things on its way into the afterlife.
The unique sarcophagus featured the leopard's face by the mummy's head to protect the deceased during their journey through the afterlife.
The afterlife of lost luggage: About 250,000 items are lost each year on the trains or platforms of Germany's rail operator.
They find that the afterlife consists of lurking as ghosts among the living, while being able to see their fellow dead.
The transition from life to death is fully matter-of-fact, and the afterlife is not all too different from life.
The shape of the body bears an uncanny relationship to Egyptian mummies as if it is signaling to us from the afterlife.
But in the afterlife, Dr. Harbor can fix the relationship by going upstairs to see his wife in the nick of time.
As revealed in At World's End, the Dutchman's role is to ferry the souls of sailors lost at sea to the afterlife.
The film oscillates between the technical quest for insight into the afterlife and Will and Isla's sleuthing about each other's tragic pasts.
Olsen's paintings, peppered with flowers, skulls, and intonations of the afterlife, evoke ritualistic icons of the Mexican Day of the Dead Celebration.
To do so, she must journey through Viking hell and face her personal demons as well as the horrors of the afterlife.
Unlike her crime-fighting character in Mars, The Good Place follows a woman (played by Bell) who wakes up in the afterlife.
He's pretty sure a popular musician was his grandfather, but when he gets to the afterlife, he eventually realizes he was wrong.
Whether or not I believe in the afterlife, the "360-degree panoramic view," or his obtuse fortune-telling abilities is no matter.
Internationally renowned artist Caledonia "Swoon" Curry glimpsed the afterlife when her mother died in 2013, following a protracted struggle with lung cancer.
"[The customers] claim U.S. dollars would be useful if their ancestors need to go on a holiday in the afterlife," Ang said.
Another song, Exiled Tonight, is purely about him being kind of stuck in the afterlife and not being able to leave it.
At the time, people believed that they needed their bodies to carry their spirits into the afterlife, according to The British Museum.
I certainly sensed at some point that I was already in the afterlife, since my existence could have easily ended long ago.
The Thompsons adhere to a traditional Christian understanding of the afterlife, but they have prepared for their own deaths with unsentimental pragmatism.
James Boswell famously visited Hume at the end, to ask him if he was truly unperturbed by his unbelief in the afterlife.
In "The Afterlife," I describe bottles on their sides in the doorway and on the carpet in the living room, empty bottles.
Juengst's team speculates that the unusual rite may have been a symbolic way of offering protection to the infants in the afterlife.
Unsurprisingly there are multiple allusions to death and rebirth, but they feel much less linked to questions surrounding religion or the afterlife.
These are the lost true stories of countless lost lives, lost in the afterlife because they couldn't live freely in this one.
It was customary during this time period to bury the dead with coins so they could pay their way into the afterlife.
What did you think of The Leftovers' latest (and presumably final) "Kevin goes to the afterlife (or something like it)" chapter, Todd?
The judges' guards and cooks were urged to kill them before evening; anyone who did would earn great rewards in the afterlife.
"I know I have to pay for this," he says in response to a query about whether he's afraid for the afterlife.
Jennings says he is now working on his 0003th book, a travel guide to various depictions of the afterlife throughout human history.
Many conductors and singers delve beneath the folklore to plumb the tragic depths of these texts about courtship, war and the afterlife.
I've said everything that I have to say about the afterlife, so I can promise you I won't be doing that again.
In Graham's temporary confinement in an M.R.I., where words and bodies are reimagined, the afterlife of so much televised death hijacks consciousness.
If death turned out to be anything other than pure oblivion—if the afterlife was even remotely lucid—I would be disappointed.
We had this weird realization that you couldn't have anyone in the afterlife under about 30-ish, because it was too sad.
Well, we'll be dead, but I was raised Irish Catholic, so I believe it's possible to feel guilt well into the afterlife.
It's not about a near-death experience, but the song and the plot give a comforting perspective on death and the afterlife.
A well-attended funeral is a signal of good fortune for the afterlife, according to a Wall Street Journal story on the phenomenon.
The afterlife, it suggests, consists of countless dimensions in which every individual relives their biggest regret over and over until they fix it.
By 1550 BCE, anyone who could pay for a better body in the afterlife shelled out to become a mummy after they died.
It is the vast cities of the dead, with tombs packed with treasures for the afterlife, which are the richest source of clues.
D'Arcy Carden is a standout on NBC's "The Good Place," a comedy show about the afterlife that often delves into questions of morality.
Most religions talk about heaven as a place of endless pleasure, a paradise in the afterlife reserved for only the holiest of us.
Watching it, I felt as if I'd ascended into the afterlife and was looking back at home movies of a life once lived.
Its famous staircase is still visible, meaning you could technically reenact that tear-jerker scene in which Jack meets Rose in the afterlife.
The Infinity Burial Suit, a one-piece garment designed to be worn in the afterlife, is sewn with a mushroom spore-infused thread.
But to avoid the "bad place," her soulmate Chidi (William Jackson Harper) agrees to help her become a better person in the afterlife.
Other cat mummies were simply pets—like their dog, monkey, and gazelle counterparts—joining their owners in the forever home of the afterlife.
No forking shirt, The Good Place will permanently move on to the afterlife after its upcoming fourth season, which debuts sometime this fall.
The way he portrays their relationship, both in old age and the afterlife, begins modestly and evolves into a lovely and melancholy playlet.
Mexican families often create altars with photos and small gifts to make these souls from the afterlife feel at home among the living.
"If you do your fast well and it is received, there is a huge reward you get in the afterlife," Dr. Brown said.
If I was losing my mind, or stuck in some way station of the afterlife, there would be more of a fuss, right?
"I had the opportunity to talk with my grandpa about the afterlife," the Today show star, 37, captioned a touching tribute on Instagram.
And again I think of the Inferno and this idea of different levels of existence in the afterlife or in this other space.
Cui Shi played donkey polo during the Tang Dynasty, and her hope was that she could continue her favorite sport in the afterlife.
It would force us to realize something quintessential—that if we're wrong about the afterlife, we forever lose this precious miracle called life.
Kotlowitz aims to tell unforgettable stories about the afterlife of homicide, how it penetrates the minds, bodies and communities of those it touches.
It's more of a tomb than a grave, adorned for the afterlife with electronic accouterments, curved mirrors and history folding back upon itself.
In clear prose, he linked life, death and the afterlife, and detailed a path to enlightenment with meditation, generosity and strengthening one's karma.
It's the end of the road, or perhaps the i of the Jeremy Bearimy, for Mike Schur's quirky, contemplative comedy about the afterlife.
The necklace comprised massive stone beads, weighing in total more than 20 pounds, intended to be worn by the dead in the afterlife.
How do we know what we need at the end of our lives, he asked, or in the apocalypse, or in the afterlife?
"A decade later, in the afterlife, it feels like I can't be killed," Amoruso said on the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask.
I mean, was the concept of the "afterlife" not the simplest answer when it came down to the island based mindfuck that was Lost?
The Discovery, a film about the science of the afterlife, should at least be superficially concerned with science, faith, and the friction between them.
To test the afterlife machine, they need a body, so Will and Isla (Rooney Mara) steal a corpse (and open up to one another).
The gold-sheathed surface of Nedjemankh's mummiform coffin portrays scenes and texts that serve to protect the deceased as he ventures into the afterlife.
Here's why: On the NBC comedy, Kristen Bell's character, Eleanor Shellstrop has gone to the afterlife and somehow made it to the good place.
" He also professed his love for a girl he mentioned only by first name, and said he hoped to see her in the "afterlife.
Its gold-sheathed surface portrays scenes and texts in thick gesso relief that served to protect the deceased as he ventured into the afterlife.
Unlike Kris, I'm hoping the afterlife is at least something like The Good Place, but we see eye-to-eye on this diamond thing.
The country's overhang government—the afterlife of a CDU/CSU-SPD coalition that often seemed to be running on autopilot anyway—is functioning smoothly.
In two of the book's most enigmatic passages, characters enter forests, which we come to understand are a representation of death or the afterlife.
For test kitchen purposes, Brioza takes another short cut that would have his fictional Roman grandmother cursing him from the afterlife—using canned tomatoes.
Miley Cyrus' beloved pet pig, Bubba Sue, has died ... and is now gobbling down apple cores and rolling around in mud in the afterlife.
One of the most stunning finds was an elaborate jade burial suit, which was designed to protect and glorify a king in the afterlife.
Someone on the production staff who deserves both a raise and intense suffering in the afterlife saw fit to equip Lucas with a megaphone.
That show, about the aftermath of the Rapture-like disappearance of millions of people, is a fantastic exploration of the afterlife and corresponding grief.
It's especially weird how often fans of a genre that proudly spits in the face of the afterlife want to believe there's an afterlife.
In the era of the meme, we're more likely to find the afterlife of "2001" in fragments and glimpses than in theories and explications.
In an old custom, Ms. Kang burns her husband's clothes so they may serve him in the afterlife and mourns in a wintry landscape.
And then at the end, we learn that somebody will be headed to the afterlife by season's end, though not who it will be.
At the end of his prayer, he also asked for God to look after my lost friend, to show him love in the afterlife.
Before I was doing things only because I didn't want to go to hell—like giving someone money gave me something in the afterlife.
At the nearby White Horse Village, two artists speculated on the afterlife of a tiny abandoned house, formerly a temporary shelter for migrant workers.
To devout Christians and Buddhists and atheists alike, it sums up the afterlife into the Good Place … and the ominous, self-explanatory Bad Place.
He's barely appears in episode five, and spends much of episode six wandering around some sort of coma version of the afterlife (see below).
In Scott Carter's new play, directed by Kimberly Senior, three great men meet in the afterlife and try to discover who is the greatest.
Jeremy Couillard's project is a jokey portal to the afterlife, in which you rise from a cartoon cadaver and ascend through colorful, heavenly tubes.
"I visited the afterlife three times, by my estimate," he said in one of a series of interviews conducted over the past half year.
Maduro has a mystical streak, and has told the nation that a little bird speaks to him, bringing news of Chávez from the afterlife.
There are also coffins in the familiar curvy Egyptian shape made of cheap wood for those seeking an economy-class ride to the afterlife.
The more I know Jesus, the more I trust him as merciful and am content to leave questions of the afterlife in his hands.
Branding himself a prophet, he plumbed the new-age convention circuit alongside specialists in animal telepathy, chakras, hauntings, angelic gemstone messages and the afterlife.
From dimension travel to the afterlife and merely a dream, The OA theories are endless, and as the story continues, it's really just the beginning.
Maybe you've heard it's a comedy about a mixup in the afterlife, and you're expecting some sort of goofball network version of Heaven Can Wait.
Lead single "Endless" is a rumination on one of life's greatest taboos: death; the legacy we leave behind, how there's a celebration in the afterlife.
Down Below is a record made by four men about what happens to people in the afterlife, and so its grim reaper is a woman.
In the movie Flatliners (out September 29), a group of precocious medical students discover a way to reach the afterlife — and then come back again.
She has stated that this performance is related to ushabtiu — Egyptian funerary statuettes that assist the deceased in carrying out their legacies in the afterlife.
Indeed, she has inserted herself into the afterlife of the architect and ruffled feathers in a place where Barragán is a revered as a hero.
But, of course, unlike the personal shoppers we know, Stewart's character also has to deal with a murder investigation and some messages from the afterlife.
" Martin confesses, of faith and the afterlife, "I'm not sure what I believe… I put a lot of heaven and hell stuff in my stories.
She even speculates she's already died, before repeating the witch's curse from Season 1, which we interpret as her reuniting to Drogo in the afterlife.
But if you want to give that turkey the afterlife it deserves, a bowl of bacon-studded soup is a mighty fine chariot to heaven.
But there's nothing repetitive about seeing a crew of seven or eight soldiers before you and, one by one, shish-kebabing them into the afterlife.
During the baptisms, church members had stood in as the victims' proxies in the belief that they might embrace the Mormon faith in the afterlife.
The guy could stand to tone down the emo quotient a bit, though I'd expect a stint in the afterlife to have the opposite effect.
The three paintings almost link up to form a triptych, but they fall just short of a three-part sermon on death and the afterlife.
Often, the dreams showed the dead person young and disease-free, savoring the pleasures of the afterlife or bearing some hopeful message for the living.
And Kevin appears ready to head into the afterlife again — or maybe the weird hallucinatory state he enters when his brain is deprived of oxygen.
By contrast, many religious groups perceive that real estate in the afterlife and divine will on earth are not amenable to division, compromise, or bargaining.
The ancient Egyptians mummified animals such as cats, dogs, monkeys and birds as offerings to the gods or to help the animals reach the afterlife.
Half a million people died, and the only justice they can hope for is in the afterlife, when the scales, they believe, will be balanced.
Many cultures in antiquity have buried their dead with coins as a way to pay a mythical ferryman to take their souls into the afterlife.
The one in the wedding dress, Ferrari told me, was intended to symbolize the bride that Mollino never had, but would enjoy in the afterlife.
NBC comedy "The Good Place," a show about a woman inadvertently sent to the afterlife after dying, is currently airing its fourth and final season.
They make caskets for families who believe that life transcends death and that the deceased will continue with his or her profession in the afterlife.
He grapples with his own pride throughout "Damn," often treating it like a temptation, before reminding himself that the afterlife is waiting with a judgment.
Mysterium is also a good choice for Hufflepuff because in the event everyone wins, the players free a ghost to live happily in the afterlife.
Adam Bock's "A Life," produced Off Broadway in 2016, is a terrific, terrifying fantasia on the afterlife whose main character merely happens to be gay.
In Spook, her 2006 book on how scientists have studied the afterlife, she takes pains to explain her lack of knowledge while reporting on a subject.
We had resigned ourselves to the fact that, just like Area 51 or the afterlife, we'll never know the truth about Kim Kardashian West's bathroom sink.
It gets by with this by being a mystery, more or less, as young boy Miguel investigates several family secrets after accidentally landing in the afterlife.
Using everything from psychics to a futuristic machine that connects the living and the dead, Jim embarks on an investigation into the nature of the afterlife.
But I'm still curious as to where the rules came from in the first place, if they were set up to judge humanity in the afterlife.
It's all about transcending death and meeting up with a lover in the afterlife, following whatever romanticised misfortune you or your significant other has met with.
Janet lying is so unprecedented that it threatens the fabric of the afterlife and everyone it in—there are earthquakes, entire rooms get sucked into nothingness.
That's the premise for The Good Place, a delightfully absurd take on the afterlife that envisions heaven as a place where you'll never get hungover again.
As someone who grew up non-religious and extremely curious, my anxiety toward death stemmed from having no available theory as to what the afterlife is.
Age contests aside, the real takeaway here is the importance ancient Egyptians placed on these extensive preparations for the afterlife—even before actual life truly began.
Kristen Bell plays Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who finds herself sent to the Good Place in the afterlife, where she most definitely does not belong.
As a director, he's made everything from high-concept comedies (the afterlife-set Defending Your Life) to existential examinations of Baby Boomer malaise (Lost in America).
And NBC's "The Good Place," a philosophy-heavy comedic look at the afterlife, was a top-fiver for 59% of liberals but just 6% of conservatives.
He's been Jennifer Lopez's love interest, he's traveled through time and space to get a glimpse of the afterlife, and now he's...the future of drag?
The portrait of Doug Forcett (the man who guessed the system of the afterlife) is a picture of a real-life comedy writer named Noah Garfinkle.
According to Mann, Eleanor's clothes in the afterlife are meant to belong to the "real" Eleanor, explaining their difference from her wardrobe in flashbacks on Earth.
Since Thursday night, mourners and well-wishers have been gathering there, according to local accounts, bringing flowers and gifts to help send Toledo into the afterlife.
Since Thursday night, mourners and well-wishers have been gathering there, according to local accounts, bringing flowers and gifts to help send Toledo into the afterlife.
A sequel, "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey," in which they battled their evil robotic duplicates, visited the afterlife and encountered the Grim Reaper, was released in 1991.
After setting pots based on his late father's notes, Harris is overjoyed to find that his family of born fishermen still has it, even from the afterlife.
The film, set in and around a gloomy mansion-turned-research-facility, builds to Harbor, Will, and the audience seeing for themselves what the afterlife actually is.
Take for example, Will's father, Dr. Harbor, who became so obsessed with his early research on the afterlife that he ignored his wife until she killed herself.
The opera presents opposing arguments about science and religion but doesn't take a stance on either, concluding instead with a vague and uncompelling musing on the afterlife.
She turns Calisto into a bear, but in what must pass for a happy ending, Giove promises to make the lumbering Calisto a goddess in the afterlife.
The name "Enoch" refers to a figure in the Abrahamic religions who did not experience bodily death, but was instead taken directly into the afterlife by God.
Anyway, what are you going to do if you get to the afterlife and it turns out to be one of our more consistently disappointing chain restaurants?
The Good Place, which has been on the air since 2016, follows Bell's character Eleanor coping with entering the afterlife after she mistakenly ends up in heaven.
You can focus on a specific question you'd like to ask them about the afterlife or you can simply send them a message of greeting and comfort.
For him, the central idea of Ruriden is to provide a resting place where people without children or large families will not feel alone in the afterlife.
Surrounding the remains of the boy king are murals depicting him as a divinity; he enters the afterlife in the company of Anubis and Osiris and Nut.
Yan has always found this grave more impressive than the Terracotta Army, in Xi'an; giving this emperor what he needed in the afterlife had involved real killing.
Amazon's new psychological thriller blurs the line between reality and the afterlife to bring forth a narrative that is as equally tormenting as it is emotionally healing.
Curiously enough, A Ghost Story casts the afterlife in almost the same pattern as The Discovery: It is, in the end, shaped by our regrets and loves.
In his book "The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought" (1997), Rabbi Gillman chronicled the evolution of Jewish ideas on death and the afterlife.
I read the Carver and Paley in the Afterlife section, which for a while at least, has the salty savor of anchovies on very thin, friable crackers.
This frantic adaptation of Tim Burton's much-loved 1988 film is sure to dishearten those who like to think of the afterlife as one unending, undisturbed sleep.
Showrunner Michael Schur (The Office and Parks and Recreation) has translated the absurdity of the afterlife into a surprisingly high-brow mishmash of morality debates and jokes.
The show about a gang of cats competing for a spot in the afterlife has stood the test of time since it was first performed in 1980.
In 1920, Edison became intrigued with ideas of the afterlife, and he set out to create a device that could be used to communicate with the dead.
"Your mom is acknowledging that I have to speak to my daughter," he said, and then let the woman know that Mom was O.K. in the afterlife.
This time around, X-Men and Inception's Ellen Page leads the experiment as Courtney, a young med student who has personal reasons for her fascination with the afterlife.
It is believed that the food (and all the paper money and clothes that they are burning) will be transferred to the departed family member in the afterlife.
This similarity points to a shared view of death and the afterlife about 500 years before Egypt came into being as the world's first nation state, said Buckley.
The former is compelling enough busywork, with Dr. Harber and his son revealing, refining, and testing a machine that they hope will provide a livestream from the afterlife.
Since Christianity taught that time on Earth was preparation for the afterlife, and that God decided death's moment, you might as well do good works in the meantime.
Where Inuit tribes believed they were dead souls lighting the way to the afterlife, certain groups of early Scandinavians thought they were ethereal dancers, flitting across the sky.
In the book, a scientist named Dr. Montague aims to prove the existence of the afterlife by spending four days alone in Hill House, a notoriously haunted place.
We've possibly seen one too many depictions of "misfit girl upends adorable perfect place" (aw, remember Suburgatory?) and "the afterlife is so real" (Dead Like Me, RIP). 2.
But not only is "The Good Place"—which airs its second season finale on February 1st—bizarre, hilarious and smart in its approach to morality and the afterlife.
Rooney Mara and Jason Segel are going to play the couple at the movie's center; Robert Redford will play Segel's father, the man responsible for discovering the afterlife.
As in the original myth, Orfeu can't keep from looking, and no sooner does he lay eyes on the possessed than he loses Eurydice to the afterlife forever.
Many people sense a mysterious connection to the afterlife, dramatized here in a striking image, as a beach full of fish washed up on an inky black shore.
In the winter, he'd prescribed a benzodiazepine, Klonopin, for the daily panic and terror that began after I delivered the finished manuscript of "The Afterlife" to my publisher.
After the death of their grandfather, two kids move to a new town and discover a building in the woods with a mirror that leads to the afterlife.
Militants often carry out attacks during the month in the belief that those who die in battle during Ramadan will get more blessings from God in the afterlife.
They think that whoever buried the child in the pot with a coin did so in hopes of finding some way to send the child into the afterlife.
On "The Good Place," the NBC comedy that puts a fresh spin on the afterlife, Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper) is a professor of ethics and moral philosophy.
Over four seasons on the NBC comedy, both Michaels spent their time devising elaborate, twisty fictions and trying to settle on a suitably just plan for the afterlife.
In the penultimate episode of "The Good Place," after four seasons wandering the afterlife, our dear-departed heroes finally make it to the destination promised in the title.
I&aposve published four books on the subject, and I run a nonprofit organization that produces The Afterlife Conference, which helps people embrace a healthier relationship with death.
The Bible speaks to matters of great moment — the fate of nations, wealth and poverty, guilt and forgiveness, sexual conduct, the role of institutions, the afterlife and more.
The Afterlife For now, Mr. Remer is trying to take what was most special about the Zen Hospice Project's approach — the emphasis on mindful caregiving — and strengthening it.
The idea of the mummy also focuses debate around mysticism and science, pitting religious beliefs in the idea of souls and the afterlife against scientific inquiry and exploration.
The bloody Civil War meant there were voids in almost every American community, and the rise of Spiritualism encouraged a closer religious connection between life and the afterlife.
You can reflect on death and the afterlife, create an altar to your ancestors, or bring to mind what you want to let go of during this new moon.
Death taboos vary wildly from culture to culture, as do imaginings of the afterlife, according to religious studies scholar Erik Davis, author of Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia.
Thus the nature, intentions, and market impact of this potential competitor and/or trading partner remain undetermined—adding further layers of mystery despite this initial confirmation of the afterlife.
In one level, GLaDOS tries to comfort you by saying that if you die, at least you won't have to worry about your wages being garnished in the afterlife.
You see that a lot in art to do with mourning; it's a terminal state, but it also expresses the proposition of something ghostly, or spectral, or the afterlife.
Previously he's created an Escher-esque basketball-themed world for Prefuse 73, explored a Moog synth's innards with Flying Lotus, and visited the afterlife with This Will Destroy You.
Although most objects were created for funerary use, they aren't generally somber in appearance, a reminder that the Han viewed the afterlife as a realm where pleasure should flourish.
The original 1990 Flatliners was a pre-Batman Joel Schumacher movie about Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts as med students who induce near-death experiences to study the afterlife.
The episode buoys between Laurie's time with Nora and Matt tracking down the afterlife-blasting physicists, and her time on the ranch with Kevin, Sr., Grace, John, and Michael.
It's the story of Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), a shoemaker's son who accidentally crosses the bridge into the afterlife one Day of the Dead and desperately seeks a way home.
The study authors aren&apost sure why the children were buried with this extra headgear, but said it could represent an attempt to protect the infants in the afterlife.
The clip follows a bumbling Grim Reaper tasked with bringing the band to the afterlife, only to mess up through repeated cases of mistaken identity with bloody, hilarious results.
It was the mural in Spain that changed their perspective on the afterlife, or the Bob Marley song that their father used to sing to them as a toddler.
The warrior was a symbol of martial strength, molded from terra cotta and buried more than 2,000 years ago with China's first emperor to defend him in the afterlife.
And Everybody's Gone to the Rapture was a stunning-looking meditation on religion and the afterlife created by a small team who really do deserve props for their efforts.
"Just another day being a cat in America," Cooch laments after a priest tells her that animals don't make the afterlife, where she had hoped to reunite with Brad.
The afterlife of minstrelsy and blackface continued long after slavery, popularized by hundreds of "coon" songs which were based on racist stereotypes and were enjoyed by white audiences. Gov.
"Die in Supreme" is a groggily melodic ode to carrying your swag into the afterlife, and the quiet menace of the opening "Strong" is offset by Fiji's schoolyard cadence.
After all, if ghosts found a way to break out of the afterlife and into our world in 2016, chances are they would look something like a video game.
A woman has found the game in a forest flea market, and plays it on YouTube to sell ads for money, telling stories about 2056 while drifting through the afterlife.
When I spoke with him about the film last year, he expressed his wish, which he sees as mirroring Emily's, that he could simply believe in God and the afterlife.
Will and Isla find Harber in a dreary mansion — formerly a summer camp for troubled youth — where the good doctor has secretly designed an experimental looking-glass into the afterlife.
He believed that if he consumed the dirt, his spirit would be free to transition to the afterlife, instead of lingering around to haunt the shit out of prison officials.
Ms. Anderson's contribution is a three-minute cut of her documentary "Heart of a Dog" — a poetic visual essay about, among other things, the journey from life to the afterlife.
BuzzFeed News' Gabriel H. Sanchez explores the meaning of the afterlife by looking at the work of William Hope, a photographer and spiritualist at the turn of the 20th century.
With the Chinese Qing Ming festival coming, where people are expected to burn "money" for their ancestors in the afterlife, stores are selling replicas of U.S., Singapore and Japanese banknotes.
If that hasn't convinced you yet, DeCurt1998 also observes that Polly's character suffers a mental breakdown in the "Afterlife with Archie" comic books, which would be in line with Riverdale.
Now, the idea of the afterlife as the ultimate bureaucracy is not a new one — see the Albert Brooks film Defending Your Life for just one example out of many.
They're going to drown him so that he can go into the afterlife and learn a song that he can bring back with him to prevent the Great Flood. Sure.
Researchers suggested this could have been linked to the ancient Egyptian "opening of the mouth" ceremony, which was intended to enable the dead to eat and drink in the afterlife.
The Shabab are expected to stage more assassinations and suicide missions, possibly in June, during the holy month of Ramadan, when being martyred is considered especially auspicious for the afterlife.
You know everything can change in an instant We spend much of our lives searching for answers about God and the afterlife, but it's often specific events that crystallize beliefs.
As it turns out, thinking about death, god, spirituality and the afterlife may help us to live more purposeful lives and strengthen our emotional resiliency during our time on earth.
Todd VanDerWerff: While season two's "International Assassin" is probably the best "Kevin in the afterlife" episode, I think this one ultimately had the most to it, if that makes sense.
Scholars argue that theologies create several "scarce resources" to which different religious groups claim privileged access: understanding of the divine will, access to sacred territories, and entrance to the afterlife.
Our existence within the confines of racial capitalism and the afterlife of slavery promotes the cavalier use of these types of images, drawing a direct line back to chattel slavery.
"The Ga community, to which I belong, believe in the afterlife and they believe also that the coffins I make will deliver them to this new beginning," he tells CNN.
An ancient spell inscribed on a scarab to ease the journey of the dead into the afterlife depicted birds without legs, to prevent them from wandering away from the spell.
Pretending to be a bereaved mother, Mackenberg told Gunsolas that her baby had died a few months earlier and that she wanted to check on the infant in the afterlife.
Without a prescribed course for mourning, I didn't know what else to do besides mother this lump of concrete as if he could actually transfer my love to the afterlife.
But it is also the afterlife: this is a book haunted by generations of the dead, including Prikryl's brother, who died suddenly in 1995; the book is dedicated to him.
For example, the Mishnah, the earliest Rabbinic text (third century A.D.), records Rabbi Jacob's teaching that our world is merely a vestibule for the afterlife in the world to come.
For example, the Mishnah, the earliest Rabbinic text (third century A.D.), records Rabbi Jacob's teaching that our world is merely a vestibule for the afterlife in the world to come.
This region of Indonesia, located in the island of Sulawesi, believes that buffalo play a vital part in the afterlife, basically escorting the spirits of the dead on to eternity.
An interest in genealogy is especially strong in the state, because tenets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints emphasize the importance of family relationships in the afterlife.
At least that's the case in the hit NBC show The Good Place, which follows the journey of a woman who mistakenly ends up on the wrong side of the afterlife.
"One year after the existence of the afterlife is scientifically verified, millions around the world have ended their own lives in order to 'get there,'" the synopsis reads, as NME reports.
Melisandre's the one who provided the necessary magical knowledge to bring him back from the afterlife, while Davos gave her the pep talk she needed to go through with the ritual.
Pet Sematary received its second film adaptation this year, with Jason Clarke playing a father who doesn't believe in the afterlife until he starts messing around with bringing back the dead.
The Man of Science and the Man of Faith reunite in a space disconnected from time, and along with the other characters, take a step into the glow of the afterlife.
The eldest Bush brother kept things light for his first appearance in support of his brother's campaign, joking about his life post-presidency (the "afterlife", as he and Laura call it).
While it's not in scripture, she explained that many church leaders continue to preach that LGBTQ youth will be "made whole" when they finally reach the telestial kingdom in the afterlife.
There are the Hijras of India, Ancient Egyptians who gender-swapped to get into the afterlife, and even a third gender portrayed in 18th century Italian art, to name a few.
The actress, 30, who plays a medical student studying the afterlife in her new movie Flatliners, told PEOPLE about a time she barely escaped a personal visit to the great beyond.
I'm ashamed that they called what they thought they were doing was dancehall, because it really looked like they were trying to summon a spirit from the afterlife through interpretive dance.
That's when he revealed those from the afterlife (or the clouds or the tea leaves or wherever) are telling him to BET ON L.A. AND BOSTON TO MAKE THE WORLD SERIES!!
Laura Magnusson – Blue Magnusson's Blue is a single channel video of the artist, shot on a seafloor, moving arduously through the water as she burrows through the afterlife of sexual violence.
The burial practice of providing sacrificed humans as retainers to another deceased person to attend to them in the afterlife is believed to have also been carried out in ancient Egypt.
"The Good Place" is set in a cartoonish spin on the afterlife, with Kristen Bell as Eleanor, a new resident who realizes she has made it to this utopia by mistake.
A Ghost Story takes the opposite approach to an exploration of the afterlife: As a kind of cosmic folk tale, it's a simple and strong evocation of grief and, yes, regret.
As a result, a rich conversation about Mexican identity that wasn't about drugs or migration didn't happen, nor did a debate about Disney's controversial decision to build borders in the afterlife.
Nigerian death rites can be quite elaborate — even after a funeral, there is often a "second burial" with days of lavish celebration to ease the deceased person's journey to the afterlife.
In a relatively brief conversation, Jones declines to affirm the resurrection, calls the Virgin birth "bizarre," shrugs at the afterlife and generally treats most of traditional Christian theology as an embarrassment.
Case in point: Thailand's devilish Wang Saen Suk Hell Garden, a colorful park filled with gory, blood-spurting tableaus depicting the afterlife of sinners in one of the 16 Buddhist hells.
When millions joined the clerical-led revolution that ousted the Western-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979, strict Islamic laws had widespread public support as a preparation for the afterlife.
"All may have, in part, conveyed a sense of desiring to 'look one's best' in the afterlife -- a function the cones too could have served," the researchers said in the study.
And prompted by Lincoln's empathy, and his ability to treat the dead with respect and affection, they resolve to save Willie's soul and convince him to pass on to the afterlife.
If it turns out that there is a points system that factors into the afterlife, do you think that being a minister is going to help put you over the edge?
"Jeremy Bearimy" is named for, uh, the way that time passes in the afterlife, a weird squiggle of a timeline that resembles the name in the title (just go with it).
The Good Place has always been pointed, broadly, toward overturning the kind of "morality inequality" that divides the afterlife into a system that tosses almost everyone who dies into eternal torment.
Craftsmen, to give another example, also designed one particularly ornate set of bronze bells that chime beautiful notes, meant to guide dance performances that would keep the elite entertained in the afterlife.
Remember this is about giving yourself closure, so a negative response is like the final nail in the coffin confirming this ghoul is better left in the afterlife of your dating life.
The brand-new remake of the 1990 horror film stars Ellen Page as one of a group of med students who subject themselves to near-death experiences to learn about the afterlife.
They are adorned with intricate carvings and designs, including Egyptian deities, hieroglyphics and scenes from the Book of the Dead, a series of spells that enabled the soul to navigate the afterlife.
Because though it was fun to see Fall Out Boy live from different angles—like an untouchable ghost who was visiting from the afterlife—the novelty wore off after a few goes.
Perhaps she's been sent back from the afterlife to test our capacity for love, and so I try to love her, but I can't hide my heart from God or from myself.
The possibilities of the afterlife of these components, of how they are handled and used, echo the artist's recurring interest in touch as a physical sensation and an abstract form of exchange.
If you were one of the many who hoped that Jon's foray into the afterlife would have some sort of effect on his character or personality, well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
These artisans who made an indelible mark on fashion each shared a canny connection to the afterlife—a relationship all creators share with the work that lives on long after they do.
It couldn't be better even if the late Tom Clancy were to have written it, and we have to believe he is smiling down from the tactical high ground of the afterlife.
The chamber also contained pottery, wooden funerary masks and ushabti figurines, which are small blue, black or white statues that ancient Egyptians placed in tombs to serve the dead in the afterlife.
They range from gleefully funny trips to the afterlife to horror miniseries, from the story of TV's most antisocial antihero to a standard-issue cop drama that nonetheless does some interesting things.
After tentatively bonding with Carol and Morgan over the past few episodes, a surefire sign that the boy is doomed, Henry joins Carl in the juniors section of the afterlife this week.
" Rally, a drug prescribed "not for moods … but possibly for a lack of them," has the unnerving quality of refusing to be definitively swallowed: "An antidepressant for the afterlife, someone called it.
In "Dia de los Muertos" or "Day of the Dead," this company of dancers and musicians explores the world of the living and the afterlife through the eyes of two young lovers.
One of the reasons Grace wants Kevin Jr. to venture back into the afterlife is that he hopes he'll see her kids so he can ask them what happened to their shoes.
In reality, this desire was about speaking in the ancient Egyptian vision of the afterlife, not anything like a vocal reconstruction for the study of scholars or the entertainment of the public.
There are bonuses to be had as well: The program pays extra for snakes measuring more than four feet or for snakes that were sent to the afterlife while guarding snake eggs.
Egyptologists have long viewed these as mistakes, but this exhibition will spotlight recent research into the phenomenon, drawing on the Brooklyn Museum's collection to examine how Ancient Egyptian women entered the afterlife.
Counteracting the Adventist tenet that a soul cannot ascend to the afterlife until Jesus Christ returns to Earth, they create an audacious Heaven sequence that refuses to bide time until the Second Coming.
Curator Alice Gray Stites explains that each jar is labeled for one of "the five rivers of the underworld, which … guide the dead to the afterlife," and is tagged with lines of poetry.
We were completing a unit on the ancient Egyptians in school and I wanted Icky to have his toys and cat food put in his tomb to bring with him to the afterlife.
ROME (Reuters) - On January 9, 1324, the Venetian traveler, merchant and writer Marco Polo was preparing for his final journey - to the afterlife that he as a God-fearing Christian was certain existed.
In the final scene, Thackery Binx — now liberated from his cat-cage — walks into the afterlife with his younger sister, Emily, whom the Sanderson sisters had killed back in their 17th century heyday.
For some, it can be spiritually fulfilling to spend the Blood Moon reflecting on the afterlife and mortality, especially ahead of November's Mourning Moon, which encourages us to think about those we've lost.
Soon public séances were attracting everyone from newspaper man Horace Greeley to Sojourner Truth, and table rapping, spirit photography, and mediums were part of a new, much more personal, connection with the afterlife.
Although many of the tombs were looted over the years, numerous treasures were discovered in later excavations testifying to the Chu kings' affluence as well as their beliefs in immortality and the afterlife.
Shiraz Maher, the project's leader, and his colleagues took months to classify each of the 50,000-odd messages and posts under headings such as "yearning for the afterlife", "religiosity" and "desire to migrate".
Recalling that the artist told me his curiosity about the afterlife was sparked by the book Proof of Heaven, his conclusion feels intentionally south of heaven, with an ending both odd and alarming.
The dozens of accounts arrive from everyday citizens but also from curators, collectors, activists, heads of villages, and security guards who played, or play, some role in shaping the afterlife of these Lenins.
According to the book "Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love," the famous baseball player expressed his desire to reunite in the afterlife his late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe just before dying in 1999.
Books of The Times You're no one in this life — or in the afterlife, at any rate — until one of your children has written an account of what an appalling parent you were.
I bet she's up in Heaven trying to get Jeff Hanneman from Slayer to join up with her and [former DAMAD bassist] Brian [Duke] to start the most brutal band in the afterlife.
She's both a victim and an avenger: Having lost Solor to Gamsatti in this world, she invokes the gods to bring about a devastating earthquake, so she can reclaim Solor in the afterlife.
Jacobs-Jenkins follows this plot structure, but, instead of Good Deeds, it's Love who accompanies Everybody into the afterlife; Love is as imperfect as all the other figures, but he doesn't forsake Everybody.
A payout of $103,000 might not be that much in the grand scheme of things, nor would it assuage their grief — or my eternal guilt in the afterlife for abandoning them too soon.
" Almansa added that "taking the body out of the tomb, not even offering him food that he'd need to survive the afterlife, would be seen as some kind of sacrilege against the deceased.
Both the film and the book seek to find the true Bosch, the enigmatic figure whose portrayals of the afterlife, whether serene or infernal, serve as admonitions to mortals concerned for their souls.
" Richard Carrier on the afterlife: "The picture of a skull—a skull or a skeleton—was very common in pagan art, to remind people that, yeah, we're all just going to be bones someday.
Photographers began to take advantage of a willing public's belief in the afterlife by taking poorly exposed portraits and telling family members the blurry forms in the background were images of deceased family members.
With the help of her best friend (Kimiko Glenn), she must learn to ascend to the afterlife in this more-fun-than-it-sounds dark comedy that counts Lisa Kudrow among the executive producers.
I'd also like The Good Place to figure out a way to indicate just how the things that happen in the afterlife still have a bearing on the morality of our plane of reality.
It's directed by Jesper Dalgaard and produced by Mads Damsbo and lets people experience a somewhat grisly death, a journey through the afterlife that takes in club culture, Tibetan Buddhism, and a subsequent resurrection.
The Hollywood icon, 85, shared her thoughts on the afterlife after a small fly interrupted her recent interview with The Guardian, revealing that she believes the insect might be connected to the late Jackie.
The everyman, named Atom, dies, goes to purgatory, and meets God, who explains that he won't get to enter the afterlife until he gets reincarnated as every human being who ever lived throughout history.
This quiet, deliberate story dives deep into the afterlife of a man (Casey Affleck) whose spirit lingers in the home he shared with his partner (Rooney Mara), watching the world move on without him.
Soon, other slave owners realize Nat's eloquence can be used to keep their slaves in line, and so they start paying Samuel to have Nat preach about slaves receiving their reward in the afterlife.
We'll certainly miss The Vampire Diaries (and the characters who have passed into the afterlife, sob!) but I have my fingers crossed that we'll be seeing more vamps on our screens very, very soon.
Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger that once again flipped the premise of the afterlife-with-assholes comedy and Season 3 continues to deliver exciting twists, bizarre gags, and the occasional heart-melting moment.
As we all know — at three seasons and 35 episodes in — the afterlife hinges on a cumulative point system, with good deeds adding to an individual's point total and bad or selfish deeds subtracting.
The archangel Gabriel is often described as standing at God's left side and, although he isn't flat-out evil, one of his main jobs was to help people die and transition to the afterlife.
With its emphasis on this life over the afterlife, Judaism couldn't offer the eternal salvation that Colton's Christian church promised Josh, but it did bring the family together for some traditional Jewish real talk.
The ancient Greeks used to place flowers on the graves of warriors, believing that if the flowers blossomed, that the warrior's soul was sending a message that it had found happiness in the afterlife.
Near the end of " Carousel ," the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, the hero, Billy Bigelow, returns from the afterlife to check up on Julie, his wife, and Louise, the teen-age daughter he never knew.
Now death has moved from a plot point to the subject of the movie, and in "Coco," we see a different version of the afterlife, one without pearly gates, clouds, angel wings or halos.
One segment imagines Ripa the Reaper (Tonya Pinkins), the host of a show called "Everybody Dies," who is eager to welcome black children as her guests, dragging them kicking and screaming into the afterlife.
In a recent episode, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and YouTube star PewDiePie are name-dropped as "random bad people" to possibly introduce into an experiment on whether humans can morally improve in the afterlife.
However, it seems that he believed that works, like his cartoon evangelizing, would deliver to him and the people who bought and distributed his tracts to the general population special rewards in the afterlife.
Once again a story of an intergenerational bond between a man and a boy, Revival follows a jaded faith healer who essentially Dr. Frankensteins the afterlife, and the young man who becomes his assistant.
It had to get back to the afterlife sooner or later — there are too many wonderful toys there — but I figured it would hang out on our plane for at least the whole season.
As founder of the studio Quantic Dream, the French developer has been stunning and confounding players for two decades with cinematic games that tackle heady issues of love, death, domestic abuse, oppression, and the afterlife.
The euphonic clamor of the blaring band draws neighbors out of their homes as they join the chorus of clapping hands and tapping dress shoes, watching the corpse of a stranger dance into the afterlife.
A few seconds later, just as I'm starting to wonder if the afterlife really does look like Northern California, my guide turns his hands into fists to signal "stop," then gives me a thumbs up.
Almost submerged in the ancient baths, dressed in a waterlogged suit, the musician closes his eyes as he spoons invisible soup from a saucer, while the shrouding steam seems to transport him into the afterlife.
Discovered near her funerary bundle was a strangled adolescent, who might have been a sacrifice to guide her into the afterlife, according to the museum at the El Brujo archaeological site where she was found.
As the animation powerhouse has increasingly turned to the comfort of sequels, this look at the afterlife represents a lively original concept, one that powers through its flat patches with a whole lot of heart.
Ngati Awa, the local tribe, believes the spirits of the deceased travel from the burial ground to a large rock at the river mouth, where they shed their final tears before departing for the afterlife.
The Discovery eventually becomes interested in regrets, and how we deal with them; as regrets are something people contemplate at the end of their lives, this is natural territory for a movie about the afterlife.
The primary tool for healing from ergot related ailments would have been prayer, and relief from the worries of facing hell in the afterlife was redemption through Christ — all which are reflected in the altarpiece.
There is a murder (revealed in the third act) and a fatal church-bell-related accident (witnessed in the first), but the afterlife in "Coco" is a warm and hectic place, more comical than creepy.
The next year, it removed A Permanent Slave, a game that explores the afterlife of seven real-life factory workers who committed suicide at Foxconn electronics plants in China, where many Apple products are made.
So, the sure way to address fear of the afterlife is to live the present life compassionately and wisely which, by the way, also helps us have a happy and meaningful life in the present.
We see Eteocles (Morimasa Takeishi) rise peacefully from his demise, step into the water and walk into the afterlife, while the corpse of Polyneices (Keita Mishima) lies belly-up on a rock, left to rot.
"The Good Place" created an idea of the afterlife I want to believe is real, and it also showed me the very real way I can live here on Earth with more optimism and integrity.
To get an idea of the history behind these traditions, where some are hired to mourn and others to guide the dead into the afterlife, you must link the mourners' faces to these supporting documents.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Exceedingly wealthy, the royalty of the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) lived indulgently, and these aristocrats were determined to enjoy their accustomed luxuries in the afterlife as well.
The Lamborghini — made by 26-year-old Lin Zhao Wei — was created for Qing Ming, a three-day Chinese festival where people burn paper offerings to their ancestors, believed to receive the gifts in the afterlife.
Amanda framed Jack as a "spokesperson" for spirits, saying that he wants to communicate what it's like to die and exist in the afterlife, and that every single person has the ability to communicate with spirits.
So, to recap: Satanists don't have an elaborate belief system around the afterlife, they don't care how funeral rites are conducted, and they actually prefer to focus on how people lived, rather than how they died.
The data gathered on the guests isn't so much a ploy to better sell them things, but a way to compile a profile to control against in order to ensure a faithful recreation in the afterlife.
You may feel less comfortable with the idea of your texts serving as the basis for a bot in the afterlife — particularly if you are unable to review all the texts and social media posts beforehand.
Ross's beloved wife, Artis, who has several disabling illnesses, has opted for this form of assisted suicide, and Ross, who is perfectly healthy, announces that he intends to accompany Artis on her journey into the afterlife.
In "The Afterlife," I report that my mother was subjected to Munchausen syndrome by proxy , a form of abuse that is carried out, usually by a parent or a caregiver, as unnecessary medical or surgical intervention.
That last scene turns into a graphic three-way that feels like what would happen in a Phoebe Waller-Bridge remake of "Ghost" — there are times when "Dust" feels a bit like "Fleabag" in the afterlife.
And no, the plot — which has the kids singing in a kind of purgatory — wasn't inspired by the musical "Forever Plaid," where a quartet performs a concert from the afterlife after being killed in an accident.
Rook and Dizzy unearth old trauma; they sing and chant and squeal about the worst shit that's ever happened to them, making clear at every juncture how close they feel to annihilation, obliteration, and the afterlife.
Success in the afterlife required an aptitude for arcane theology, a command of potent resurrection spells and incantations and a knowledge of the names not just of Underworld doorkeepers but also of door bolts and floorboards.
While a show like The Good Place is not the first to examine the afterlife, it does so with a thoroughly modern tone that acts as a mirror for being a good person in our complicated times.
This sentiment, a cross between nostalgia and despair, forms the emotional undercurrent of the stories in this collection, whose ostensible focus is the afterlife of the immigrant childhood, but whose gaze is fixed steadfastly on the past.
Filmed using a mansion that once belonged to Ada Lovelace and broadcast, the movie has since become an acclaimed cult treasure, a sober yet unsettling ghost tale about the tech world's attempt to reverse engineer the afterlife.
People who have sex with ghosts experience "both positive and negative" encounters, explains Lloyd Auerbach, the director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations and president of the Forever Family Foundation, an organization dedicated to understanding the afterlife.
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The product, which launched on Kickstarter this month and has already met its funding goal, is billed as "the world's first incubator for the afterlife," and is designed to be paired with the company's eponymous biodegradable urn.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of "Defending Your Life," Mr. Brooks's comically curdled take on the afterlife, Netflix for the first time is presenting that film and six others that he wrote, directed and starred in.
True, I've read quite a bit, from Charles Brockden Brown to Ira Levin, and I'm up to speed about the classical visits to the afterlife by Odysseus, Gilgamesh and Aeneas, not to mention Dante and Albert Brooks.
If, instead, we're just going to see a bunch more attempts to recreate the wild, anything goes atmosphere of the afterlife here on Earth, the show might start to chase its own tail too much for me.
We know Eleanor is reading the Libra entry because she mocks the tip given in that paragraph: "Live every day like it's your last" (an ironic piece of writing given that she's about to enter the afterlife).
The block's corridors—the sour-cream walls lit by low-wattage sconces downy with dust, the furred, blue, perpetually damp carpeting in which shoe-print impressions dolefully lingered—evoked for Bobby a budget version of the afterlife.
That's the problem facing Scott Carter, the writer who has so venturesomely put Jefferson, Dickens and Leo Tolstoy in a sealed antechamber to the afterlife, along with a copy of the Bible and some pens and paper.
El Rio offers up a psychedelic embodiment of death that is beyond our world and the afterlife as we conceive it, reinterpreting its cyclical nature in a way that gives birth to a new kind of optimism.
You can just imagine these uber Protestants, Orangemen, Dutch Calvinists, Amish, whatever, settling here where every morning they wake up and know they're being tested by God, and that life is really just a veil before the afterlife.
The strange-science angle that briefly suggests a new spin on The Ring, with Gabriel supposedly investigating the afterlife in the most haphazard, disorganized, irresponsible way possible, winds up being one of an entire shoal of red herrings.
It's about a woman who must choose, while crossing over into the afterlife, to either return to the age of 22 to find her long-lost love, or accept death and hold onto the memories she already has.
The book, " The Afterlife ," is divided into seven parts, the number of years, in classical myth and literature, that is considered an appropriate period of mourning, and the number of years it took me to complete the manuscript.
In fact, one of Jesus's most famous parables, in Matthew 25, lists humans' willingness or failure to care for sick people as one of the chief criteria upon which they will be judged by God in the afterlife.
"Defending Your Life" [in which an advertising executive played by Albert Brooks dies and discovers in the afterlife that he has to prove he has conquered his fears or get sent back to Earth for a do-over].
It's possible that the injury severed his penis or testicles; a boar's tusk was placed between his legs, and the researchers believe that the tusk was meant to replace what he lost and prepare him for the afterlife.
But The Good Place was a show at least partly about our fears of the afterlife, and I think what I admire most about this finale is how it returns to that theme by saying, you know what?
And they&aposre not ashamed of passing on to the next realm because, you know, as people of faith, and there are a lot of people of faith here, we embrace the afterlife but we&aposre terrified of dying.
Instead, I've stayed up late googling "near death experiences" and read books like Proof of Heaven, which follows a skeptical neurosurgeon's "journey into the afterlife," in an attempt to comfort myself into thinking such a thing might be real.
His Jesus got drunk at the marriage at Cana, climbed on a table and exhorted everyone to forget the afterlife for the here and now; his raising of Lazarus was recounted by a furious pickpocket victim in the crowd.
The middle tier is open to non-Mormons who accept the gospel of Jesus Christ in the afterlife, as well as Mormons who were "blinded by the craftiness of men," as 76:13 of the Doctrine and Covenants states.
He has passed as has your brother, if you believe in the afterlife and they are looking down at you now, what do you think they are thinking as they are looking down at you on this historic day.
As philosopher Samuel Scheffler has shown in his wonderful Death and the Afterlife, the prospect of our personal demise does not reduce existence to insignificance, but the extinction of the species—and by extension, of the universe—certainly might.
As Nancy J. Troy argues in her 2014 book, The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, collectors, curators, scholars, dealers, and the artist's heirs helped to construct Mondrian's legacy well after his death, oftentimes leading to the commodification of his works.
I was in the afterlife, and more than that, I was in hell and hell was an eternal loop where you're forced to believe you're alive just so you can go through the hell of realizing you're dead again.
To answer your question about why people hold on to money "like it follows you to the afterlife": It is because most people want to be able to afford a cab at 4 AM. It's a self-preservation thing.
Countless articles have been written on the sexual frustration of men in the Middle East — from the jihadi supposedly drawn to armed militancy by the promise of virgins in the afterlife to ordinary Arab men unable to afford marriage.
His fans relish his surreal, inventive images of the afterlife, but particularly his vivid visions of hell: sinners straddling giant knife-blades, egg-shaped machines churning miscreants into their bellies, cruel hybrid frog-devils and dog-faced lizard birds.
With a growing number of the rich in Asia making the passage to the afterlife with the best that money can buy, companies like Nirvana provide services that range from $100,000 gold-plated caskets to million-dollar burial plots.
People say they've spotted Henry glaring out of the windows on the second floor, and Mary, who has been noted for turning off the cameras of those who have tried to capture a snapshot of her in the afterlife.
Considering the Afterlife Reading James Wood's review of "This Life," by Martin Hägglund, I was mystified by his argument that the main consideration in defining personal morality is whether one views existence as finite or eternal (Books, May 20th).
As both shows end this week, our critic reflects on how TV's two great moral comedies — one about the perils of Hollywood and the other about the afterlife — showed us that doing the right thing is a group effort.
This is the sort of show that imagines the afterlife, in the second season finale, as a grotty karaoke bar in which Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) performs a shaky rendition of "Homeward Bound" while hovering between life and death.
"The obvious suggestion here is that they helped the deceased to be reborn into the afterlife, or brought them benefit once there," said Anna Stevens, an archaeologist from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and lead author of the study.
The Good Place is set in the afterlife, and it begins with a rude, unpleasant woman named Eleanor — played by Kristen Bell — being mistakenly slotted into the titular "good place," rather than the bad place, where she clearly belongs.
It was a way for me to think about the persistence of Black death — what Saidiya Hartman calls the "afterlife of slavery" — and the persistence of Black life, the ways in which Black people nonetheless make spaces of joy.
In any case, Horus is banished and Set takes the throne, changing the rules of the afterlife to require mortals to offer payment for entry — the move is an apparent bid for Set to become the god of eternal toll taking.
The film gets its name from a Reddit user named Justin Santiago, who brought up human evolution in response to one of Allen's previous films, Ruby, a similar face paint animation that asks what explores themes of rebirth and the afterlife.
Meanwhile, in the afterlife, Shawn the demon (Marc Evan Jackson) cheerfully encases his minions in painful punishment cocoons when they fail to perform their evil tasks adequately, when they talk back to him, or just when he feels like it.
So much so, in fact, that through a series of Pixar-typical events, the little boy ends up falling into a magical loophole that allows him to travel into the afterlife on Dia de Los Muertos and meet his ancestors.
As DeCurt1998 explains, Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa created and wrote the "Afterlife with Archie" comic book series, which involves a zombie apocalypse, so there's reason to believe he might carry some of those ideas over into the TV show.
They got cosmic, keeping half an eye on the afterlife and its implications, ending up with songs like "God Is a Number" and the literally transcendent "Get Up," allowing Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein to converse rather than scrap towards resolution.
"Heat and Light" reaches all the way to the afterlife and even extends to include EST, or Erhard Seminars Training, a fashionably abusive form of enlightenment that could be had at the time the novel's Texas energy company was born.
In this article, Jessica Bennett, who writes for The Times's Style Section, provides a behind-the-scenes look at her experience writing a profile about Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus and the afterlife of a scandal, and about questions over language.
If you are already poised to dislike this show and its grandiose sentimental pronouncements about the afterlife and the potential of humanity, you will not enjoy the ending, which goes so meta as to smash down the fourth wall entirely.
Using Hinduism as her prime example, she argued that "selfish" vegetarians abstain from meat for fear of retribution in the afterlife, whereas "unselfish" Aryan vegetarians demonstrate their superhuman qualities and racial superiority by caring for the welfare of "all" sentient creatures.
Where the video is concerned, the band—comprised of Anton Falck Gansted and Joakim Norgaard—tell me that it portrays a "love story from the afterlife," and is based on The Brothers Lionheart, a children's book by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.
When the lights change and Mary's pregnant belly is flattened, the Turner home slides into some dismal corner of the afterlife, where Mary hears the sound of a crying child and Sidney is charged with helping her remember that child's murder.
The potent psychedelic brew was every bit as intense as it was promised to be, and took me on a harrowing journey into the darkest recesses of my psyche, leaving me both haunted and comforted by visions of the afterlife.
I thought I had peaked at being a clue in a New York Times crossword puzzle, so having this opportunity to become a constructor is a clear sign I have crossed over and am writing to you from the afterlife.
Ms. Skloot, as both narrator and author, traced the afterlife of these cells: HeLa emerged as one of the most widely used lines in medical research and helped establish the multibillion-dollar vaccine industry, cancer treatment and in vitro fertilization industry.
Revenue passed $350 million last year, with some prodigious donors continuing into the afterlife (a foundation set up by Robert Petersen, who published Tiger Beat and Guns & Ammo magazines, has contributed at least $56 million since his death in 2007).
Together with our previous research, the information gleaned from this complete mummy tells us that the prehistoric Egyptians already had knowledge of the processes required to preserve the body, as well as a developed religious belief system about the afterlife.
True, the professor had chosen a sensitive subject: the sale of indulgences, a popular means by which pious Christians could make a financial contribution to the church in return for the hope of remission of their sins in the afterlife.
Plus, there's all that talk about the afterlife, and that car crash fully reversed, and, wait, those boats are sailing backwards, too, and the fact that the title is a palindrome feels like a clue, and... uh, whatever, who cares.
Pramote Promin, the Internal Security Operations spokesman, was quoted explaining that the last 10 days of Ramadan are especially targeted by militant groups because of a belief that attacks during the holy period would offer more reward in the afterlife.
Whether they've transitioned to the afterlife or suffered a life-altering incident, the episodes showcase the Mama Medium star's conversations, including a mother whose young child died unexpectedly, a family who lost a father in a plane crash and a heart transplant patient.
If you want an idea of exactly how unpredictable the show can be: on Tuesday night, Miranda played "a cow that got cooked and somehow sang both Phantom (of the Opera) AND Sweeney Todd from the afterlife," he said in a tweet.
Basically, the process of determining one's fate in the afterlife is presented something akin to playing a video game: When you die, all the points you've earned throughout your life for doing good deeds, and lost for doing bad ones, are tallied up.
That's one thing I'll be taking away from A Ghost Story, the most terrifying, bleak and lonely vision of the afterlife committed to screen since the 1998 candy-colored-psychosis hellscape What Dreams May Come starring Robin Williams, may he rest in peace.
In the first teaser for The Discovery, a film soon coming to the streaming service, we get a glimpse into a love story unfolding in a world where Robert Redford has proven the afterlife is real, and suicides are spiking as a result.
After that, it seemed like Ziggy's passing had jammed open the doors of the afterlife: lugubrious thespian Alan Rickman, known best to you as the brooding Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films -- and indefatigably jolly broadcaster Terry Wogan followed almost immediately.
The series has left us all in a state of disorientation that forces us to question what, if anything, was real about the OA's (or Prairie's… I don't even know what to call her anymore) experiences in both the afterlife and captivity.
The trailer for Niels Arden Oplev's Flatliners remake is here, and it fits right in alongside The OA, The Discovery, and the slew of other shows and films where science-y people wear funny things on their heads and study the afterlife.
While the first two seasons of the show focus primarily on Chidi's time in the afterlife, his behavior remains much the same as it was on Earth, despite the fact that he believes, at least for a while, that he is in heaven.
Andrew Barker (Variety) About as inessential as reboots get, Flatliners finds a replacement cast of equally overqualified actors, and beefs up its depictions of the afterlife with some updated visual effects, but otherwise offers no reason for reanimating this long-expired property.
The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell, 'House of Lies,' 'Veronica Mars'), an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife, and thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place (which is definitely where she belongs).
And during a rehearsal in September, an actor tinkled the organ keys, intoning earnestly: "I'd like to think that in the afterlife, kids can taste their coffins and they're happy," enjoying "the milkshake coffin, the fried chicken coffin" and many other available flavors.
Those are the kinds of stories he saves for Godasi's integration circle, where it's not uncommon to hear from people who say they spoke to God, saw the afterlife, or communicated with the spirits of deceased loved ones during a psychedelic trip.
In South Carolina, white residents have long perfected the bless-your-heart two-step of praying for your black soul so you can join them in Heaven in the afterlife, while upholding systems that threaten your black body in the here and now.
Rabbi Neil Gillman, a Jewish theologian who gave aspiring rabbis and congregants in the Conservative movement new ways to talk about God, death and the afterlife, and who was an important advocate for the movement's ordination of women and gays, died on Nov.
While planning for the afterlife may not be a priority for most of us, so-called "death cafe" discussion groups, including those held at branches of the New York Public Library, provide an opportunity for people to grapple with end-of-life questions.
Of course, photography itself was still in its infancy, and when you add grief and Spiritualism to the equation, there's no telling just how far the human mind is willing to go to make some sort of sense out of the afterlife.
The Good Place has always been a pretty insular show, but at least in the afterlife, we had figures like the Judge and Trevor and Vicky and on and on, characters who would pop in just frequently enough to keep the story moving.
The young men in this book are enticed not by ideology, but by the powerful draw of camaraderie, belonging and a moral code, not to mention access to women and sex (even if, in the case of jihadis, it's in the afterlife).
Bangkok Journal BANGKOK — On a broad parade ground not far from the Grand Palace, Thai masters are constructing a vision of heaven — an elegant, nine-spired funeral pyre for King Bhumibol Adulyadej that will send his soul into the afterlife later this year.
His notion of religion seems to be northern-European Christian first and foremost; he is quiet about Judaism, whose practices are sensibly grounded in the here and now, and which lacks the intense emphasis on the afterlife characteristic of Islam and Christianity.
When they're redesigning the afterlife in the ninth episode of this season, the problem they identify is that people can commit crimes that aren't by their essence cruel, and yet they're punished in a way that is cruel, and that asymmetry is problematic.
Together with our previous research, this new information tells us that the prehistoric Egyptians, living at the time the man died, already had knowledge of the processes required to preserve the body, and practiced a developed religious belief system about the afterlife.
She also performs a useful demonstration of the failings of Stuart Gilbert's predominant English translation, and chronicles, often amusingly, the afterlife of "The Stranger" (titled in England "The Outsider"), long considered pornographic in America, censored and even landing a teacher in jail.
Their ruler, the First Emperor of Qin, had governed by force, and his masterful tyranny was clear from written records; but here was a portrait in hard clay of a soldier guarding him in the afterlife, with his top-knot, boots and wrap-around coat.
The only thing I actually remember from that illness is sweating profusely on my family's faded blue living room couch, and that my Grandma bought me a Transformer (Ratchet, I think) to help me feel better or possibly to keep me company in the afterlife.
Whatever he decides to do, it sounds like we'll continue to be graced with his increasingly crazed Larry-style curls and beautiful, bowling ball physique until his glorious spirit finally flees his corporeal form and goes on to feast on rum ham in the afterlife.
But in reducing those victims to nameless images on Facebook, in broadly conceptualizing the Holocaust and slavery, in appropriating these unfathomable periods in human history for our own consumption, we have once again dehumanized, this time in the afterlife, the individual victims of those periods.
When William could breathe no more, into the afterlife he went, and into the embrace of his mother, the woman who singlehandedly raised him, and the woman whose death sent him on a path of self-destruction before sobriety and last-chapter redemption arrived.
In the first half of the (currently airing) third season, the main cast was alive again — and because they knew about the afterlife, they were ineligible to earn points for their good deed that could send them to the Good Place once they died again.
What motivates the masses, gives sense to their despair, lightens the weight of the world and compensates for sorrow no longer is the promise of a rich and happy country, as was the case after decolonization; it's a vision of paradise in the afterlife.
This building is above a large shaft that leads down to several burial chambers holding  mummies , sarcophagi, alabaster vessels (used to hold the organs of the deceased) and shabti figurines — the Egyptians believed these figures could act as servants for the deceased in the afterlife.
It's been a little more than a year since Prince left us for the afterlife, and only now is his bottomless vault of unreleased songs being plundered by labels eager to capitalize on what have to be dozens of possible albums worth of material.
Well, the idea that we don't live in order to obtain some kind of salvation in the afterlife leads naturally to the belief that we have to achieve everything that is worth achieving in the here and now, in this one life that we have.
"King Philip's Head" is probably too much of a cleverly extended sketch to have the afterlife of other examinations of American institutions that were incubated at Clubbed Thumb, including Heidi Schrek's Tony-nominated "What the Constitution Means to Me," a current hit on Broadway.
North of the Pamir cemetery and from roughly the same period, other researchers identified a container with about two pounds of chopped cannabis next to the head of a body believed to be a shaman, presumably to use for herbalist concoctions in the afterlife.
Thomas Lake Harris — a New York mystic who specialized in channeling the afterlife verses of dead English Romantic poets before founding a commune in Northern California — modeled his vision of the Divine Mother goddess on his own mother, who died when he was 9.
And speaking over the telephone only weeks after his first late-night interview, and first Critics Choice nomination, we spoke about it all, including the afterlife, philosophy, and all the things that will make him far more neurotic by the time our conversation is over.
His mother suffered a mental breakdown soon afterward and would have been institutionalized if not for the fact that she expected to see her slain son again, to be reunited with him in the afterlife where she was certain his body would be made whole.
The exhibition, which also includes hundreds of associated artifacts from museums around China, aims to tell the story not only of how the emperor created his enormous retinue for the afterlife but how the figures were rebuilt despite the absence of any guide or template.
We are also able to bless our deceased loved ones who did not have the opportunity to attend the temple by completing these ordinances for them, by proxy, with the understanding that they are able to accept or reject these actions in the afterlife.
The Good Place has always spent a lot of time dwelling on philosophy, but the overt lectures have taken a back seat this season, aside from Chidi getting Simone to accept that she's in the afterlife, not just undergoing a complicated hallucination while dying.
I won't spoil them here, but the afterlife symbols arguably get a little heavy-handed by the end of the movie, and that can make it feel ponderous — like it's trying to explain its own concept rather than inviting viewers to discover it for themselves.

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