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How old would you want to be in heaven?

  • Written by Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
Our cult of youth continues into the afterlife.Denis Simonov/Shutterstock.com

Many religious faiths propose different versions of heaven as a location: There are walled gardens with streams, flowers, pleasing scents, pretty angels, rapturous music or delicious accessible food.

But what about us – the once-mortal – who will go on to...

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