[Vocabulary] Eschatology

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Narkises

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Hi,
I am looking for a word that refers to the other world after this world. I mean "the world after death". I could only find "Eschatology" but what I need is the name of that world. What do you call it (if you have encountered such a word)?

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Maybe "the afterworld"?
 

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Heaven or Hell.
 

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Those who believe in such a world or state call it variously

heaven, paradise, nirvana, utopia, reincarnation, reward, the afterlife, the next world, the promised land, the rapture, the hereafter etc, but never eschatology.
 

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The generic term is afterlife. Other terms apply to specific belief systems.
 

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We could add life after death to Rover's list.
 

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For me, "the afterlife" differs from "life after death". The former refers to a mythical place where the spirits of the dead go. The latter refers to a sort of reincarnation where someone who has died comes back as a live being again (animal or human).
 

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The afterlife may not include reincarnation, but life after death, for me, could be heaven or reincarnation.
 

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In Christianity, life after death is eternal life in heaven but not reincarnation.
 

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I agree with you, but would include reincarnation in those belief systems that accept it in the term.
 

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In Buddhism, for example.
 
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