History Main / OffScreenAfterlife

* Cheza and the wolves in ''[[WolfsRain Wolf's Rain]]'' are searching for the entrance to Paradise (Rakuen) on Earth, but none of them knows what it's really like. [[spoiler:And the audience never gets to find out.]]

** This could also imply that there is but one afterlife in the Narutoverse, much like Hades or an eternal purgatory.

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* This is both employed and subverted in Neil Gaiman's ''{{Sandman}}''. Death is constantly meeting people to take them to the afterlife, but we never get to see what the afterlife she brings them to is like. However, we do see the fate of a great many souls after death, including quite a lot of time spent in Hell, and a memorable visit to the Greco-Roman underworld.

* Used, and {{lampshaded}}, in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', when the recently resurrected Spock tells [=McCoy=] that he can't describe death, since [=McCoy=] lacks a common frame of reference:

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* It's not uncommon for people who have had an out-of-body experience to believe they ventured to Heaven, Hell, or some other version of the afterlife. Obviously, they were the only people who witnessed their experiences. Whether or not any or all of these accounts are true is [[YourMileageMayVary up to the individual]].

* Used, and {{lampshaded}}, in ''StarTrekIV: The Voyage Home'', when the recently resurrected Spock tells [=McCoy=] that he can't describe death, since [=McCoy=] lacks a common frame of reference:

* In the ''Outer Limits'' episode "White Light Fever", an old man has been doing everything he can to stave off death, including putting himself ahead of a sweet young woman to have a heart transplant. He remarks during the episode that "death is cold". As he is finally dying, he sees the ghost of the sweet young woman approach him. "Take me with you," he pleads. She tells him this is not possible, and that where she is going, it is always warm. Just before she leaves, she turns to face him, saying, "It's funny. I always thought it was the other way 'round."

** This is doesn't really make much sense though, considering that [=McCoy=] '''did''' die in Shore Leave, an episode of the Original Series. [[IGotBetter He got better though]].

* Taken to the extreme in ''{{Bionicle}}'', where afterlife is sort of implied to exist (Mata Nui's soul, for example, started drifting off into it before HeGotBetter), but what it is like is never given any details. The writers have their reasons for this: not wanting to touch on iffy subjects, they purposely avoid talking about it.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'' this is called "The Pure World" (life is "The Impure World"), and is brought up mostly in reference to Edo Tensei, the jutsu whereby a dead ninja is brought back to life to serve as an enslaved, zombified summon. The last thing any of the ninja remember is the moment of their death, which seems to be part of the "pure" thing. The Pure World may or may not refer to both Heaven and Hell since Zabuza fully expected to arrive in the latter.

* In VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged, the deceased Varie describes heaven as what it would be like "if the best orgasm you ever had could last forever." Main character Hitomi finds this description [[InnocenceVirginOnStupidity less than helpful.]]

** This could also imply that their is but one afterlife in the Narutoverse, much like Hades or an eternal purgatory.

* Fully averted in the DivineComedy, a book with the purpose of describing the afterlife.

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* In {{Homestuck}}, Jadesprite mentions that she was somewhere, but doesn't say where.
** Earlier, [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004894 an]] [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant exchange]] between Jade and Feferi implies the location to be [[EldritchLocation The Furthest Ring]].

* Apparently, this happened to [[{{Azrael}} Jean-Paul Valley]] after he met his end in the final issue of his comic. His last comment before disapearing from the pages of {{DC}} Comics forever were "It looks just like the earth." And he was ''smiling.''

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** This is doesn't really make much sense though, considering that McCoy DID die in Shore Leave, an episode of the Original Series. [[IGotBetter He got better though]].

* In StephenKing's ''The Dead Zone'', when the protagonist falls into a coma, he ends up in a limbo, which is like a corridor with dark chromed steel walls. He eventually comes out of the corridor and returns to life. At the end, when he dies, he returns to the corridor, not knowing if there's something at the end of it.

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* In ''DeadLikeMe'', the viewers never get to see what happens to people's souls after they cross over, and it's never really given much detail. They usually just have some kind of happy vision and then vanish. You only see the souls that stick around, either as [[{{Psychopomps}} Reapers]] or [[spoiler:as Gravelings]].

* This is both employed and subverted in Neil Gaiman's ''[[Sandman]]''. Death is constantly meeting people to take them to the afterlife, but we never get to see what the afterlife she brings them to is like. However, we do see the fate of a great many souls after death, including quite a lot of time spent in Hell, and a memorable visit to the Greco-Roman underworld.

** This is doesn't really make much sense though, considering that McCoy DID die in Shore Leave, an episode of the Original Series. He got better though.

* This is doesn't really make much sense though, considering that McCoy DID die in Shore Leave, an episode of the Original Series.

---> ''Azrael places his hands over Bethany’s eyes. For about 10 seconds, we see some of the most fucked up and disturbing imagery that can be crammed into 240 frames of film.''