Afterlife

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"Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different?"

―Davy Jones^[src]

The afterlife (also referred to as life after death, or Hereafter), in philosophy, religion, and mythology, is the concept of a realm, or the realm itself (whether physical or transcendental), in which an essential part of an individual's identity or consciousness continues to reside after the death of the body in the individual's lifetime. According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity. Belief in an afterlife, which may be naturalistic or supernatural, is in contrast to the belief in eternal oblivion after death.

History

"Besides, Louis could still be alive!"
"Alive? Yes, if you consider somewhere in the afterlife alive. But it does seem like a pretty dead type of being alive to me."

―Jack Sparrow and Arabella Smith^[src]

When Arabella Smith used the Sword of Cortés on the infamous pirate Left-Foot Louis, while wishing for justice to be done by her mother's hand, the supernatural power of the sword made Louis wanish. Since Arabella and the crew of the Barnacle believed her mother was dead, they all thought Louis had gone to the afterlife.^[1] Later, the presence of the Sword and the spirit of its original owner, the conquistador Hernán Cortés, caused Tumen to die,^[2] but he was resurrected by the spirit of the Aztec emperor Montecuhzoma. When Jack Sparrow asked the boy how was the other side, Tumen replied "Cold."^[3] Davy Jones believed that, since life was cruel, why should the afterlife be any different.^[4]

Behind the scenes

The afterlife would first be mentioned in the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.^[4]

In Terry Rossio's 2012 screenplay draft for Dead Men Tell No Tales, after having several hallucinations, Jack Sparrow sees the Black Pearl, now restored to her original size after being shrunken by Blackbeard, seemingly flying in the sky on a bed of fog, leading Jack to question himself if he is ascending to the Heavens.^[5]