The afterlife

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Death is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another.

Socrates

Quoted in Apology, by Plato

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Topic

Mystery of death The afterlife Death Oblivion The soul

Speaker

Socrates

Author

Plato

Source

Apology

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

399 BC 390s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Plato. Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους [Apology of Socrates]. Speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption. 399 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2017.

They say, "There is nothing but our present life; we die and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us." Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture.

Muhammad

The Quran

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Topic

Temporal vs. eternal The afterlife

Speaker

Muhammad

Source

The Quran

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Arabic

Time

632 630s 7th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

The Quran. c. 630, 45:24.

Current Citation

The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 45.

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.
No one goes away and then comes back.

The Song of the Harper

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Topic

Can't take it with you The afterlife Death

Source

The Song of the Harper

Genre

Wisdom literature

Language

Egyptian/Hieroglypics

Time

2600 BC 2600s BC 27th century BC

Era

Egyptian Middle Kingdom

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Anonymous. Tomb of King Intef, n.d., stanza 10.

Current Citation

Anonymous. "Song of the Harper." The Literature of Ancient Egypt, edited and introduction by William Kelly Simpson, translated by Robert T. K. Ritner, William Kelly Simpson, Vincent A. Tobin and Edward F. Wente, Jr. Yale University Press, 2003, stanza 10.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

Songs and Sonnets

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Topic

The afterlife

Author

John Donne

Source

Sonnet X Songs and Sonnets

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Donne, John. "Sonnet X." Songs and Sonnets. London, 1633, I. 13.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Holy Sonnet X." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 13.

If a man die, shall he live again?

Job

Job 14:14

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Topic

Death The afterlife Resurrection

Speaker

Job

Source

Book of Job The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

Hebrew

Time

500 BC 500s BC 6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 14:14).

Were the happinesse of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Topic

The afterlife Heaven Life

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

Source

Hydriotaphia

Language

English

Time

1658 1650s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk." Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Together with the Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 4.