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Featured Article: Afterlife

Paradise—Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven (The Empyrean), by Gustave Doré

The afterlife, or life after death, is a generic term referring to the continuation of existence after death, typically spiritual, experiential, or ghost-like, beyond this world. This afterlife is an existence which stretches on to eternity, compared to the short span of life on earth. Most believers have a optimistic view of the afterlife, believing that they will enjoy a pleasurable existence with friends and loved ones in heaven. Many also believe in a place of punishment called hell, although they do not believe they will live there.

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-title=Cuneiform script|
+title=Afterlife|
-image_name=Sumerian 26th c Adab.jpg|
+image_name=Paradiso Canto 31.jpg|
-image_desc=Sumerian inscription in monumental archaic style, c. twenty-sixth century B.C.E.|
+image_desc=[[Paradise]]—[[Dante]] and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven (The Empyrean), by Gustave Doré|
-text=The '''cuneiform script''' (kjuːˈniːəfɔrm) is the earliest known form of [[writing|written expression]]. As such, those writings that remain are [[communication]]s from peoples long gone from the earth. Created by the [[Sumer]]ians in approximately 3000 B.C.E., cuneiform writing began as a system of [[pictograph]]s. Over time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract. Cuneiforms were inscribed on [[clay tablet]]s, on which [[symbol]]s were drawn with a blunt [[Phragmites|reed]] for a [[stylus]]. The impressions left by the stylus were wedge shaped, thus giving rise to the name cuneiform ("wedge shaped").
+text=The '''afterlife,''' or '''life after death,''' is a generic term referring to the continuation of [[existence]] after [[death]], typically [[spirituality|spiritual]], experiential, or [[ghost]]-like, beyond this world. This afterlife is an existence which stretches on to [[eternity]], compared to the short span of life on earth. Most believers have a optimistic view of the afterlife, believing that they will enjoy a pleasurable existence with friends and loved ones in [[heaven]]. Many also believe in a place of punishment called [[hell]], although they do not believe they will live there.
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