beforelife

plural beforelives

1. An existence before the beginning of life.

   The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife.

   2009, Randy Alcorn, Edge of Eternity, →ISBN, page 258

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   Imagine that before any of us is born, we all get together in the beforelife (the pre-birth version of the afterlife) for a meeting to design the rules that will govern society.

   2012, N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, sixth edition, page 426

   The point is that, however secular our culture may be, notions of an afterlife (and/or a beforelife) seem to be dying rather hard.

   2014, William Lowell Randall, The Stories We Are: An Essay on Self-Creation, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 150