Legacy is also correct, but Heritage is more commonly used in History.

A life held to follow after death. (Webster`s)
Life in a later part of a person`s lifetime or after death. (Oxford)

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http://www.glbthistory.org/museum/exhibits.lasso

Saint Harvey
The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Gay Martyr
This exhibit documents Milk’s life as well as his afterlife in our cultural consciousness. It examines the social forces that propelled Milk into the history books, and explores the process through which a community hungry for heroes invested a fallen leader with mythic status.
“Saint Harvey: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Gay Martyr” exhibits rarely seen artifacts from the estate of Harvey Milk, including the clothes Milk wore at the time of his assassination.


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The \'Afterlife\' of Genocide
http://www.aihgs.com/GenNach.html
Genocidal Nachleben

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Afterlife taucht oft im Kontext Wiederauferstehung und aehnlichem auf. Ist es trotzdem im historischen Kontext moeglich oder bin ich da voellig auf dem falschen Dampfer? Bin mir nicht mehr so sicher - wuerde mich ueber Kommentare freuen - Danke!

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http://www.notbored.org/strange-afterlife.html
The Strange Afterlife of Cornelius Castoriadis

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http://www.americanheritage.com/xml/2004/3/2004_3_toc.xml
The Perilous Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
The explorers who set out two hundred years ago were in danger for three years. Their legacy was in danger decade after decade—and it was Meriwether Lewis who almost killed it.
by Anthony Brandt

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http://n-www.wadsworth.com/politicalscience_d/special_featur...
The Aftermath of Decolonization
Tharoor, Shashi. \"The Messy Afterlife of Colonialism,\" Global Governance January-March 2002.

I mean after his passing away

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pl. read as \'his influence....