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* PlanetHeck: An entire planet that is like Hell.

* HeavenlyConcentricCircles: Heaven depicted as a set of concentric circles or spheres.

** DivineMisfile: Sometimes the celestial bureaucracy screws up.

** BonusLevelOfHeaven: A bonus level in a video game where you need to go through Heaven.
** FluffyCloudHeaven: The typical depiction of heaven as a bunch of clouds in the sky.
** HeavenAbove: The sky is associated with the divine.
** HellOfAHeaven: Heaven isn't half the eternal paradise it is said to be.
** NostalgiaHeaven: The afterlife is a place that meant something special to the deceased.
** PhysicalHeaven: Heaven is a place where living non-deity characters can physically go.
** StairwayToHeaven: Stairs (or occasionally an escalator) that lead to Heaven.
** UnfeelingHeavens: A Heaven whose angels are far removed from things like feelings and human attachments.
** WarriorHeaven: A warlike culture's idea of Heaven is an afterlife full of war.

** AHellOfATime: Hell is actually a nice place to be.
** BloodyBowelsOfHell: Hell is full of body parts, almost as though you're in a creature.
** CirclesOfHell: Hell has multiple layers devoted to punishing different types of evil.
** CityOfTheDamned: Hell is depicted as an urban setting.
** DraggedOffToHell: A person gets dragged to Hell against their will.
** EasyRoadToHell: Doing one bad deed will instantly condemn you to Hell.
** FireAndBrimstoneHell: The typical depiction of Hell as a fiery realm beneath the Earth.
** {{Hellevator}}: An elevator that leads to the afterlife, usually to Hell.
** HellHasNewManagement: A baddie dies, goes to Hell, and takes over.
** HellIsWar: A character is made to fight for eternity as a punishment.
** IronicHell: A person who goes to Hell is forced to undergo a punishment that serves as an ironic reminder of the bad things they did in life.
** KarmicReformHell: An IronicHell meant to rehabilitate lost souls.
** PhysicalHell: Hell is a physical place.
** PlanetHeck: An entire planet that is like Hell.
** SelfInflictedHell: The afterlife is whatever you think it will be.
** ThisIsntHeaven: A person who thinks they're in Heaven finds out that they're really in hell.
** ToHellAndBack: Part of the hero's mission involves entering Hell or a similar place.

** TheGrimReaper: Death is personified as a skeleton in a black cloak wielding a scythe who shows up to take people to the afterlife when their time has come.
** DeathIsALoser: Death is unpopular and/or unlucky.
** DontFearTheReaper: The Grim Reaper isn't such a bad guy.
** RelievingTheReaper: Someone assists, or subs for, the Grim Reaper.
** {{Shinigami}}: A Japanese deity with a similar "job" to the Grim Reaper.
** {{Valkyries}}: A fierce group of women who assist the Norse gods and guide fallen warriors to Valhalla.

* TheColdHeavens: Heaven and its angels are completely cold and detached from anything resembling humanity.

* TheFerryMan: A character whose job it is to help people pass nigh-impossible obstacles to reach a destination that could be an afterlife.

** {{Valkyries}}: A fierce group of women who assist the Norse gods and guide fallen warriors to Valhalla..

** {{Valkyries}}: A fierce group of women who assist the Norse gods.

'''Categories:'''
+ Afterlife locations
++ InfernalTropes (Hell)
++ TropesOfTheDivine (Heaven)
+ Types of afterlife
++ RebirthAndReincarnationTropes
++ ResurrectionTropes
+ Other:
++ HauntedIndex
++ OurGhostsAreDifferent
++ OurSoulsAreDifferent
++ OurSpiritsAreDifferent

* HellOfAHeaven: Heaven isn't half the eternal paradise it is said to be.

* GoIntoTheLight: When a person dies, they have a near-death experience which causes him to cross over to the light.

* GoIntoTheLight