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* In Myth/EgyptianMythology, the idea of the death and soul is... complicated (and slightly inconsistent), but not unlike the above example, involves the deceased's spirit having to make a journey from one point to another through a location called the Duat. The Duat is said to be inhabited by monsters and demons, and there are a series of trials that a person has to go through in order to continue; to deal with this, some Egyptians would be interred with a copy of the Book of the Dead, a literal guidebook on how to get around in the Duat.
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* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', Ryuk informs Light that anyone who uses a [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] can neither go to Heaven nor to Hell, but rather to a place called "Mu," or [[TheNothingAfterDeath "nothingness."]] Eventually, Light figures out that [[spoiler:this applies to ''everyone'', whether they have used a Death Note or have never even seen one.]] The original series implies that this entails CessationOfExistence, but the prequel novel ''Literature/AnotherNote'', the narrator [[spoiler:Mello]] hints that Mu may actually more of a MundaneAfterlife or simply a generic world of the dead.

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* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', Ryuk informs Light that anyone who uses a [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] can neither go to Heaven nor to Hell, but rather to a place called "Mu," or [[TheNothingAfterDeath "nothingness."]] Eventually, we're shown a flashback revealing that Light figures quickly figured out that [[spoiler:this applies to ''everyone'', whether they have used a Death Note or have never even seen one.]] The original series implies that this entails CessationOfExistence, but the prequel novel ''Literature/AnotherNote'', the narrator [[spoiler:Mello]] hints that Mu may actually more of a MundaneAfterlife or simply a generic world of the dead.

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