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Entering heaven alive
Physically ascending into the afterlife without first experiencing corporal death / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the album by Jack White, see Entering Heaven Alive (album).
"Ascension (mystical)" redirects here. For other uses, see Ascension.
Entering heaven alive (called by various religions "ascension", "assumption", or "translation") is a belief held in various religions. Since death is the normal end to an individual's life on Earth and the beginning of afterlife, entering heaven without dying first is considered exceptional and usually a sign of a deity's special recognition of the individual's piety.
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