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A man rises from behind a gravestone as a skeleton in a shroud attempts to keep it closed. Etching by J. Haynes after J. Mortimer.

Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400

An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.

Hercules brings Alcestis back from the dead and restores her to her husband Admetus. Engraving by L. Desplaces after A. Coypel, 1715.

Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.

Surviving death : a journalist investigates evidence for an afterlife / Leslie Kean.

Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson.

The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts / translated with an introduction and notes by James P. Allen ; edited by Peter Der Manuelian.

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Future life

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Hercules brings Alcestis back from the dead and restores her to her husband Admetus. Engraving by L. Desplaces after A. Coypel, 1715.

Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.

Surviving death : a journalist investigates evidence for an afterlife / Leslie Kean.

Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson.

The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts / translated with an introduction and notes by James P. Allen ; edited by Peter Der Manuelian.

Future life

Images from the collections

Images referencing Future life

Works from the collections

Hercules brings Alcestis back from the dead and restores her to her husband Admetus. Engraving by L. Desplaces after A. Coypel, 1715.

Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.

Surviving death : a journalist investigates evidence for an afterlife / Leslie Kean.

Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson.

The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts / translated with an introduction and notes by James P. Allen ; edited by Peter Der Manuelian.

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