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* All recent editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (probably almost all the way back to the first edition) are designed so that a Good player character can easily be designed to desire a heroic death and subsequent eternal reward in paradise. TabletopGame/ScarredLands even has a holy spell that makes this inevitable: The spell, called "Hero's Death", makes the hero more powerful, but will inevitably kill him at the end of the duration if he's not already dead by then. The spell can only be cast on a Good person who fully comprehends that it will mean his death as well as making resurrection impossible. The only benefit for the hero is that his last stand will secure his place in Paradise.
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* All recent editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (probably almost all the way back to the first edition) are designed so that a Good player character can easily be designed to desire a heroic death and subsequent eternal reward in paradise. TabletopGame/ScarredLands ''TabletopGame/ScarredLands'' even has a holy spell that makes this inevitable: The spell, called "Hero's Death", makes the hero more powerful, but will inevitably kill him at the end of the duration if he's not already dead by then. The spell can only be cast on a Good person who fully comprehends that it will mean his death as well as making resurrection impossible. The only benefit for the hero is that his last stand will secure his place in Paradise.
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* ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'': The goal of every member of the Jellicle tribe is to convince Old Deuteronomy to select them to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence enter the paradise that is the Heaviside Layer]]. For Macavity, this desire is so great that [[spoiler:he ends up abducting Old Deuteronomy to try and disrupt the ritual and enter the Heaviside Layer amidst the resulting chaos]].
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* ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'': The goal of every member of the Jellicle tribe is to convince Old Deuteronomy to select them to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence enter the paradise that is the Heaviside Layer]]. For Macavity, this desire is so great that [[spoiler:he ends up abducting Old Deuteronomy to try and disrupt the ritual and enter the Heaviside Layer amidst the resulting chaos]].
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* Literature/TheBible, with Jesus and most of his followers.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', most good people simply seek [[strike:Jesus]] Aslan, and in book 7, they get to heaven as a side effect of that. In the third book, ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', however, Reepicheep is actively seeking out what turns out to be this afterlife. It's ambiguous as to whether he knows or not that the thing he's seeking is actually heaven. And regarding ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', Creator/CSLewis stated that [[spoiler:Susan]] would probably seek out heaven on her own after her family died and went there.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice'' centers on a man who believes the Rapture is at hand. He spends the book navigating the bizarre experiences that test his own faith while trying desperately to save the soul of his Pagan love interest before Armageddon kicks in.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', most good people simply seek [[strike:Jesus]] Aslan, and in book 7, they get to heaven as a side effect of that. In the third book, ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', however, Reepicheep is actively seeking out what turns out to be this afterlife. It's ambiguous as to whether he knows or not that the thing he's seeking is actually heaven. And regarding ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', Creator/CSLewis stated that [[spoiler:Susan]] would probably seek out heaven on her own after her family died and went there.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice'' centers on a man who believes the Rapture is at hand. He spends the book navigating the bizarre experiences that test his own faith while trying desperately to save the soul of his Pagan love interest before Armageddon kicks in.
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* Literature/TheBible, with Jesus and most of his followers.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', most''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': Most good people simply seek [[strike:Jesus]] Aslan, and in book 7, they get to heaven as a side effect of that. In the third book, ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', however, Reepicheep is actively seeking out what turns out to be this afterlife. It's ambiguous as to whether he knows or not that the thing he's seeking is actually heaven. And regarding ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', Creator/CSLewis stated that [[spoiler:Susan]] would probably seek out heaven on her own after her family died and went there.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice'' centers on a man who believes the Rapture is at hand. He spends the book navigating the bizarre experiences that test his own faith while trying desperately to save the soul of his Pagan love interest before Armageddon kicks in.there.
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* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice'' centers on a man who believes the Rapture is at hand. He spends the book navigating the bizarre experiences that test his own faith while trying desperately to save the soul of his Pagan love interest before Armageddon kicks in.
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* In the ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'' series, the Jeremite Redeemers are a group of religious fanatics who act as "living sacrifices", fighting to the death against anyone who threatens them. Any Redeemer who falls in battle is considered fast-tracked to the gods' side; consequently, they don't receive any DueToTheDead, since praying on their behalf would be superfluous.
* In the ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'' series, the Jeremite Redeemers are a group of religious fanatics who act as "living sacrifices", fighting to the death against anyone who threatens them. Any Redeemer who falls in battle is considered fast-tracked to the gods' side; consequently, they don't receive any DueToTheDead, since praying on their behalf would be superfluous.
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* ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'': The main characters are driven by a particularly urgent version of this. They are all sinners, and damned to Hell, but they believe -- or, at least, fervently hope -- that it is possible to escape or earn release from the Pit, make it to Purgatory, and achieve salvation.
* ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice'', by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, centers on a man who believes the Rapture is at hand. He spends the book navigating the bizarre experiences that test his own faith while trying desperately to save the soul of his Pagan love interest before Armageddon kicks in.
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* ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'': The main characters are driven by a particularly urgent version of this. They are all sinners, and damned to Hell, but they believe -- or, at least, fervently hope -- that it is possible to escape or earn release from the Pit, make it to Purgatory, and achieve salvation.
* ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice'', by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, centers on a man who believes the Rapture is at hand. He spends the book navigating the bizarre experiences that test his own faith while trying desperately to save the soul of his Pagan love interest before Armageddon kicks in.
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* As a result of his many mistakes as a cat and leader in ''Literature/WarriorCats'', [[spoiler: Onestar]] has this shortly before his death [[spoiler: killing his son Darktail]], worrying if he'll end up in Starclan or the cat equivalent of hell. [[spoiler: He ends up in Starclan after his death]].
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* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': As a result of his many mistakes as a cat and leader in ''Literature/WarriorCats'', [[spoiler: Onestar]] leader, [[spoiler:Onestar]] has this shortly before his death [[spoiler: killing [[spoiler:killing his son Darktail]], worrying if he'll end up in Starclan or the cat equivalent of hell. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He ends up in Starclan after his death]].
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Contrast HellSeeker and RefusingParadise. And see UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, where the character decides to create heaven, rather than to go there.
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Compare HonorableWarriorsDeath. Contrast HellSeeker and RefusingParadise. And see UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, where the character decides to create heaven, rather than to go there.
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* This is the reason why Stan from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' ruins the life of his atheist best friend (thinking that if his life becomes miserable enough he will turn to Christianity); they had a lot in common and Stan thought that him being an atheist would prevent him going to heaven, so they wouldn't be able to [[HoYay spend eternity together]].
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* This is the reason why Stan from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' ruins the life of his atheist best friend (thinking that if his life becomes miserable enough he will turn to Christianity); they had a lot in common and Stan thought that him being an atheist would prevent him going to heaven, so they wouldn't be able to [[HoYay spend eternity together]]. [[spoiler:Stan decides to stop when his campaign a) [[GoneHorriblyWrong nearly kills the poor guy]] and b) it [[EpicFail makes him become a]] ''Satanist''.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': InAWorld where gods exist and [[BoltOfDivineRetribution make their displeasure for atheists very clear]], one footnote makes mention of a man who applied a variation of Pascal's Wager -- he didn't believed in gods but he still did good deeds and lived by a broad application of their teachings to earn himself a spot in Heaven. And he did go to Heaven when he died; he just got bludgeoned to a pulp by said gods the very second after he arrived.
-->'''Leader of the Godly lynch mob''': Let's show Tricky Dick here [[MortonsFork what we think of him]].
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* Izaya Orihara of ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' intends to create a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok of his own design]] in order to reach Valhalla.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'' and the dubiously canon ''[[LightNovel/JoJosBizarreAdventureOverHeaven Over Heaven]]'' establish DIO as this. His plan in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' was only a small part of his ultimate goal of achieving "Heaven." To DIO, Heaven is not the afterlife, but rather a hypothetical state of reality in which everyone is made aware of their fate and live accordingly without worry or concern. DIO developed a complicated process to achieve this state and after his defeat to the Joestars left the task to his protégé, the priest Enrico Pucci.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'' and the dubiously canon ''[[LightNovel/JoJosBizarreAdventureOverHeaven ''[[Literature/JoJosBizarreAdventureOverHeaven Over Heaven]]'' establish DIO as this. His plan in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' was only a small part of his ultimate goal of achieving "Heaven." To DIO, Heaven is not the afterlife, but rather a hypothetical state of reality in which everyone is made aware of their fate and live accordingly without worry or concern. DIO developed a complicated process to achieve this state and after his defeat to the Joestars left the task to his protégé, the priest Enrico Pucci.
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* ''Literature/Mermaid2011'': Merfolk are TheSoulless, but most of them consider themselves better off than humans because they live for 300 years and gracefully dissolve into foam instead of rotting. But Lenia hates the thought of her mind and memories disappearing when she dies. She wants a human soul so she can live forever in Heaven. As in [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid the original story]], this is part of what leads her to transform into a human.
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* ''Film/Constantine2005'': The title character goes around sending half-demons back to Hell in the hope that this will gain him entry into Heaven after he dies. It's not that John Constantine likes the idea of Heaven that much — he just wants to avoid going to Hell, since he knows firsthand (due to trying to commit suicide in his youth) how horrible it is. The flaw in this plan is that doing good deeds for the purpose of getting into Heaven ''doesn't count''. [[spoiler:Not until he pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save the world, with every expectation that this would send him directly to Hell, does he finally earn a spot in Heaven -- Satan, who had been ''very'' eager to claim his soul, opts to heal his body so he'll have time to fall from grace once more.]]
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* ''Film/Constantine2005'': ''Film/{{Constantine|2005}}'': The title character goes around sending half-demons back to Hell in the hope that this will gain him entry into Heaven after he dies. It's not that John Constantine likes the idea of Heaven that much — he just wants to avoid going to Hell, since he knows firsthand (due to trying to commit suicide in his youth) how horrible it is. He also knows that going to Hell will mean that he will be sharing space with the same half-demons he sent back. The flaw in this plan is that doing good deeds for the purpose of getting into Heaven ''doesn't count''. [[spoiler:Not until he pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save the world, with every expectation that this would send him directly to Hell, does he finally earn a spot in Heaven -- Satan, who had been ''very'' eager to claim his soul, opts to heal his body so he'll have time to fall from grace once more.]]]]
-->'''John''': ''(to Angela)'' What would you do if you were sentenced to a prison where half of the inmates were put there by you?
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* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'' and the dubiously canon ''[[LightNovel/JoJosBizarreAdventureOverHeaven Over Heaven]]'' establish DIO as this. His plan in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' was only a small part of his ultimate goal of achieving "Heaven." To DIO, Heaven is not the afterlife, but rather a hypothetical state of reality in which everyone is made aware of their fate and live accordingly without worry or concern. DIO developed a complicated process to achieve this state and after his defeat to the Joestars left the task to his protégé, the priest Enrico Pucci.
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The character believes in a very desirable life after death. This may or may not motivate them to great deeds, including HeroicSacrifice and becoming TheSoulsaver. The motivation can be egocentric, limited to personally getting there. Or it can be altruistic, trying to help others to reach the same ultimate goal.
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** The Greek Orthodox saint [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_the_Neomartyr Demetrius the Neomartyr]] was definitely one of these. Once a Christian barber living in Tripoli (the Greek city, not the Libyan capital) in the times of the Ottoman Empire, he converted to Islam for some time, but then recanted, fell into deep depression and decided that he could only atone via martyrdom. The abbot of a monastery he was living in tried to dissuade him, but to no avail. From then on, Demetrius did all he could to pretty much shout at the Muslim Ottoman locals "I'm a Christian! I apostatized from Islam! Execute me already, please!" A Turkish friend he had in the local police even tried to falsify his confession to a Tripoli judge, only for Demetrius to realize it and insist that he wanted to die and go to Heaven. He finally got his wish and was [[OffwithHisHead beheaded.]]
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** The Greek Orthodox saint [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_the_Neomartyr Demetrius the Neomartyr]] was definitely one of these. Once a Christian barber living in Tripoli (the Greek city, not the Libyan capital) in the times of the Ottoman Empire, he converted to Islam for some time, but then recanted, fell into a deep depression depression, and decided that he could only atone via martyrdom. The abbot of a monastery he was living in tried to dissuade him, but to no avail. From then on, Demetrius did all he could to pretty much shout at the Muslim Ottoman locals "I'm a Christian! I apostatized from Islam! Execute me already, please!" A Turkish friend he had in the local police even tried to falsify his confession to a Tripoli judge, only for Demetrius to realize it and insist that he wanted to die and go to Heaven. He finally got his wish and was [[OffwithHisHead beheaded.]]
