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    writing the song as an extended metaphor of his mothers journey in the afterlife‚ and the return of her spirit to him. The inner journey is his own in the way of his journey to deal with grief. He is challenges the notion that the afterlife is a different adventure with his belief that the passed never truly leave us‚ and that they remain with us in spirit. The lyrics feature an extended metaphor‚ where the universe is the afterlife‚ and he is asking his mother about her visit. The verse ’Now that she

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    scared of death because I do not know what will happen after that. American’s obsession with the dark side comes from the curiosity of death. This obsession came from the first death of a human being. That was when curiosity about death and the afterlife originated. People do not know what happens after death and we are interested to find out more. Americans today come across the dark side every day whether they realize it or not. Inquisitiveness about the dark side appears in books‚ movies‚ and

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    The Afterlife Investigations: The Scole Experiment “Best evidence of life after death ever.” This is what this documentary film is pointing out. Is there really a life after death? Well this film makes me believe more that there is indeed a life after death. However‚ how can scientific evidence explain life after death? Now this film showed me how. The ninety-minute documentary film is about the Scole Experiment‚ which is a five-year investigation into life after death. It is conducted by

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    interpretations of the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy. Branagh interprets the scene as a contemplation of Hamlet’s decision whether to kill himself or Claudius‚ whereas Zeferelli construes the scene as a deliberation of life‚ death‚ and the afterlife. Branagh uses props‚ varied camera angles‚ and thoughtful acting to describe the “To be or not to be” soliloquy as a brooding decision haunting Hamlet of action versus inaction. Branagh begins the soliloquy facing a two-way mirror‚ with Polonius

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    Throughout different cultures‚ people handle death in different ways. Some of the issues that those the dead left behind must face include disposal of the body‚ grievance‚ memorializing‚ and preparation for the afterlife. Whether it is the Bagisu leaving corpses for wild animals to eat (Beierle 2003)‚ the death taboos of Copper Inuits‚ or Italian Americans carrying a body out of a dwelling feet first so that it cannot see the door and return (Cowell 1986)‚ all cultures must develop methods to deal

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    Most people believe in some sort of afterlife. Although this poem contains no mention of immortality‚ her other poems do reveal her belief in immortality (Roy 8). A poem that displays this is “Because I could not stop for Death”. Dickinson represents death as a being and not just a sudden action

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    only thing in life that is one-hundred percent certain is death. Humans go through life ignoring this ultimate fate until the day they are confronted. What a civilization does with their deceased tells a lot about their culture and beliefs in an afterlife. Whether a person is cremated or the body is preserved‚ whether they are buried in the ground or placed in a tomb‚ and how their final place is decorated all show their cultures values and beliefs and what kind of person they were. At the Getty Villa

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    next cradle of humanity are very intriguing. These two cultures differ in a multitude of ways yet similarities can be noted in the domain of funerary services. In the realm of Egyptian afterlife‚ The Book of the Dead can provide one with vital information concerning ritual entombment practices and myths of the afterlife. The additional handouts I received from Timothy Stoker also proved to be useful in trying uncover vital information regarding the transition into another life. Regarding the burial

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    a word that someone never likes to hear but questions that always come to mind are what happens after we die. Many people believe in different situations but ultimately I assume that the way we live out our life will determine our results in the afterlife. Almost like being punished in a sense it’s the way of the society to believe in morals such as right and wrong. Who or what judges the fact of where we go. Are these theories accurate or is it all just a fabrication. All in all it’s pretty hard

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    Countless philosophers‚ authors‚ scholars‚ religions‚ and theorists have grappled with the greatly debated topic of the afterlife. N. J. Richardson eloquently described this struggles as the‚ “beliefs about what happened to a person at the point of death and afterwards were never fixed and always remained a subject for debate” (Adams). Contributing influential opinions on the afterlife‚ the Greek and Hebrew cultures have wrestled with many concepts in order to arrive at a rough understanding of their

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