The afterlife is an existence after death. In philosophy, religion, mythology, and fiction, the afterlife is the concept of a realm in which an essential part of an individual’s identity or consciousness continues to exist after the death of the body in the individual’s lifetime. There are some people who think that after you die there is nothing more after and there are those that believe in an afterlife such as heaven.
Heaven is a place regarded in various religions as the abode of God, the angels, and of the good after death, often traditionally depicted as being above the sky. Christians believe that after a person dies, they will either go to heaven or to hell. They believe that when someone dies, they will be at rest until the second
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All of heaven is perfect and orderly with souls in their correctly appointed heavens. All of the blessed are equally high in heaven and close to God but differ in what part of the Eternal Inspiration they are aware of. The levels of heaven in Dante’s Paradiso are the heavens of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, fixed stars, the Crystalline, and the Empyrean. Zoroastrians heaven is called Paradise and unlike any other religion, they believe that eventually everyone will make it into heaven. The paradise of Zoroastrianism is attained the fourth day after death by crossing the Bridge of the Separator, which widens when the righteous approach it. On their Last day, everyone will be purified and live in a new world absent of evil and full of youthful rejoicing. The Islamic version of heaven is a paradise for those whose good works have outweighed the bad as determined by the straight path laid out in the Quran. According to the Hindu Upanishads, our actions connect us to this world of appearances, which is in fact