History Main / OffscreenAfterlife

* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': Discussed in-universe; despite the existence of souls being known, proven, and observable, the dominant religion of the world makes little-to-no mention of an afterlife; scripture on the topic just states that the dead "bloom in full and return to the sea" with no further explanation. This ambiguity is one of several reasons why Liadain is an ImmortalitySeeker.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s demons are always waxing poetic about it. "It's a prison prison made of flesh, and bone, and blood, and fear" and so on.
** According to Ruby, it's like ''Hellraiser'', but with less leather.
** We have caught two glimpses of hell thus far, in the season finales for seasons two and three. The first time it's shown to be a typical fiery cavern. The next time it's a dark green void with thunder and hundreds of chains and hooks.
*** Until the beginning of season six, when [[spoiler:Crowley]] remodeled it into an endless waiting line.
** In Season 5, we get a look at heaven as well: apparently heaven is different things for each person, overlapping but separate, apart from the Garden at the centre, which everyone perceives differently. It gets explicitly described as "Disneyland without the anti-semitism."

* ''WebVideo/{{Hololive}}'': In Calliope Mori's backstory video, "Don't Fear The Reaper", it's revealed not even Death himself, or his apprentice, actually no what's in the afterlife, or if there even ''is'' one; they simply ferry the souls of the recently deceased to a massive stairway with the instruction to walk, and have no idea what becomes of them at the top. Calli doesn't seem to believe there's ''[[CessationOfExistence anything]]'', but doesn't have the heart to tell the souls she gathers that. It's left ambiguous if she's right or not.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' this is called "The Pure World" (life is "The Impure World"), and is brought up mostly in reference to Edo Tensei ("Reincarnation in the Impure World"), 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, though in his case that's probably because of DeathEqualsRedemption.

* In the original ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen'', the children, who, living sometime before the 1920s (when secularism in American life became a little more common), are presumably Christians (but given their parents' intellectualism they could well be agnostics), mention nothing about Heaven after their father dies in an accident. One of them outright says in voiceover that he doesn't know where his father is, but suspects he can still see the children somehow.

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