Because she wished to be reunited them in the afterlife or wants to spare them the misery of this life.
This particular variant of Buddhism insists that a better result in the afterlife is gained by making charitable donations in this one.
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During the last hours of his life, as he lay in a hospital bed, his wife comforted Robertson by whispering thoughts of what awaited him in the afterlife.
But both are doing quite well in the afterlife, regardless.
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Experts say it was customary to place a coin in the mouth of an inhumation as a fare for the ferryman Charon for safe passage across the River Styx in the afterlife.
But it would appear that one Thai Buddhist sect has decided, nay declared, that Steve Jobs is now half of a yak inhabiting a crystal and silver castle in the afterlife.
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It is said that if the wronged receive anything less than a proper burial, their spirit will almost certainly come back as a Hungry Ghost, damned to starve in the afterlife, feeding only on their hatred.
An alternative approach is to appeal to the classical Greek philosophy that views kindness through the lens of reason, emphasizing the positive effects acts of kindness have not just on the receiver of kindness but to the giver of kindness as well, not for the salvation of the soul in the afterlife, but in this life.
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But this time, he engages with death and the afterlife in a way that is uplifting rather than terrifying or grotesque.
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An ICM poll in 2004 found that 91 percent of Americans believed in the supernatural, 74 percent believed in an afterlife and 71 percent said they were willing to die for their beliefs.
He said that thinking about the afterlife in new terms leads to thoughts about what it means to be alive, saying that for some people the book was "a call to arms" to look at their actions during their lifetime and how we they do them better.
And a good way to get some publicity for such a viewpoint is to produce a story about how a recently deceased famous person is faring in that afterlife in order to get the donations rolling in.
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"We hope that this new feature will enable you to plan your digital afterlife, " Google concluded in the blog post.
This is doubtful but it does make me wonder about the afterlife of the thousands of industrial eyesores just sitting unused in our oceans.
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Resident Evil: Afterlife is just about the only film taking up space in 3-D theaters right now and doubtless many of the 3, 500 theaters slated to show Legend of the Guardians will be showing it in 3-D.
In contrast, none of the new releases is likely to have much of an afterlife.
In describing the kind of customer who might be willing to pay for a public afterlife, Norris tends to stick to celebs.
Sledge, having scooped up the dead bees from the doorjamb in the Nursery, embedded these in the gunk to form a ring of bee emissaries, the better to passport the foot into whatever afterlife it deserves.
It goes without saying that this production comes with a lot of built-in good will, since "The Last Five Years, " despite running only a few months, has developed quite a following in its afterlife, becoming a staple of regional and school productions.
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