The afterlife (also life after death or hereafter) is the concept of a continued existence for the soul, spirit or mind of a being after the biological death. The major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics. In many popular views, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual or immaterial realm. Deceased persons are usually believed to go to a specific realm or plane of existence after death, typically determined by God, based on their actions during life. In contrast, the term reincarnation refers to an afterlife in which only the "essence" of the being is preserved, and the "afterlife" is another life on Earth. Types of views on the afterlife There are two fundamentally different types of views on the afterlife: empirical views based on observation and religious views based on faith. · The first type of claims are loosely based on obser

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