Afterlife

We stop living” (73-74). This passage shows that the speaker has died at the beginning of the poem. Due to this fact the focus of the poem is put on the journey the speaker takes after death and her expectations she has after death of what the afterlife will be. In “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” the speaker dies at the end of the poem, and the focus is more on the speaker preparing for death. “I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away / What portions of me be / Assignable” (9-11). This shows that…

C.S Lewis wrote The Great Divorce to describe what he envisions occurs in heaven and hell. Because I have always been interested in the concept of afterlife (I do believe in it, but obviously have no idea what it will actually consist of) I found this book especially interesting. First, Lewis introduces his construct of Hell, which is a dim and dreary grey town that is perpetually bleak. The narrator arrives at a bus stop, which allows Hell’s inhabitants to go and visit Heaven. As they depart…

should not fear death, I completely disagree with Lucretius’ theory of nothingness. I believe in Socrates’ theory and that we do not know what exactly will happen when we die. Nobody has crossed over to the afterlife and then came back to tell us what awaits us but my belief about the afterlife is based on faith, because while you are alive all you can do is have faith that there is purgatory, heaven, and hell. It may also be possible that we cross over to an unconscious state where we sleep…

life, and that life is short compared to the afterlife, because a person spiritually lives forever in the afterlife. The poem also states that death will no longer exist in the afterlife and death will “die.” In the poem by Dickinson, she said, “Since then - ‘tis - Centuries - and yet / Feels shorter than the Day / I first surmised the Horses’ Heads / Were toward Eternity” (21-24). This poem also explains how life was a lot shorter than the afterlife and after death is eternal. Very similarly,…

Fly Buzz- When I Died” all her friends and loved ones were assembled around her. As they gathered their breaths they waited for “when the king be witnessed in the room-” (7,8) Everyone was hoping that God would come take care of Dickinson in the afterlife but he never came (did?). Instead, she only saw was a fly. The people gathered around her were clearly Christians as they had the same beliefs which Jesus stated about death in John 14:1-6 which says “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You…

live a life that worth to be continued. If a soul deserves a life after death, it will reach the afterlife. In order to do it, the human soul has to pass through a lot of difficulties and judgments. Egyptian civilisation created a guidebook called The Book of the Dead that provided guidelines such as hymns, spells and prayers to God that need to be spoken to enable the deceased to reach the afterlife.…

Identity and celebration of life were very important in the ancient world. In some civilizations, a person’s identity is the most important part of death, as their identity serves as a key to the afterlife. In other civilizations, identity is also important, but they focus more on how the person lived their life because, in the end, death comes to everyone. I will be discussing two pieces: The Skull Mosaic and Akhenaten and Family. While these two pieces may seem like an odd comparison, I…

The institute informed me that the Afterlife was basically a belief held by Ancient Egyptians that if you died, your spirit went through a perilous journey through the underworld and into the Hall of Judgment where Osiris, god of the dead, sat on his throne. The deceased would then be judged…

Throughout the history of humanity, there have been an array of theories and mystical stories about what exist after one’s death. Seemly enough, the afterlife has been a topic that has fascinated the human mind for centuries. In most cases, especially when it comes to the grand story of Christianity (particularly the New Testament century and on), there is a belief that there are two separate locations: one realm dealing with the wicked and the other dealing with individuals deemed righteous.…

physical death of a person and their soul moving on into the eternal afterlife as in the same quatrain says “ Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” One cannot simply be killed after already moving on into…