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Basically, this is any scene that's either a dream or a portrayal of the afterlife, where characters with a deep connection whose relationship mainly blossomed in a particular place, are seen again there, usually in a [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] way. Often, if they died during a particularly distinct (and nostalgic) point in history, Heaven is stuck in that time period forever. If they enjoyed some (non-satanic) subculture, the afterlife is almost exclusively devoted to this subculture (perhaps even [[TheThemeParkVersion the more family-friendly version]] of HeavyMetal).

If they died after PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd, they may end up keeping their promises after all.

The key point is that it involves the person dying (or having a near death experience) and going to a heaven-like place. SisterTrope to DiedHappilyEverAfter comparable to LostLoveMontage.

'''Warning Death-Trope: Spoilers, Tear-Jerkers, and Worm-food ahead.'''
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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
%%* When [[spoiler:Kakashi]] dies in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', he sees his father again.
%%* The end of the last episode of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', if you get past the MindScrew location.
* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', after [[spoiler:Kyoko dies, she's reunited with her husband at the beach where they had their first date.]]
* In episode 29 of ''Anime/WolfsRain'', the dead or dying Toboe has a vision of himself as a pup with his beloved human Granny (whose death he always felt guilty over).
* At the end of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', when The Pharaoh passes on, we see him walking through the threshold of the door to the afterlife. As that happens, his school jacket fills the entire screen for a moment, after which it is now his cape. He appears as he was during the Millennium World arc, and he's in Ancient Egypt with the High Priests.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A variant is used in ''ComicBook/Hitman1993'''s final arc, with Tommy's DyingDream of seeing all his friends again in a version of Noonan's Sleazy Bar where the only rule is "You have to leave your guns at the door."
* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheLastRonin'': [[spoiler:After [[TheHeroDies Michelangelo's death]], he's seen reunited with his predeceased brothers in New York City as it used to be back when he was a teenager.]]
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1016261 All The Stars Await]]'' (somewhat NSFW) has the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries original Enterprise crew]] spending their afterlives back on the ship in a kind of everlasting AndTheAdventureContinues scenario. It's actually rather sweet, although one reviewer ''did'' point out that [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding it's probably only really great for]] [[TogetherInDeath Kirk and Spock]], and for Sulu ([[StatusQuoIsGod now back in the role of helmsman for what will most likely be all eternity]]) and Uhura ([[Series/TheBigBangTheory answering the space phone]] forever), it's probably more like HellOfAHeaven.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In the Japanese film ''After Life'', it is the job of the afterlife workers to help the recently deceased to identify the happiest moment in their life and film a re-enactment of it, and when the subject watches the film, they enter that moment for an eternity.
* The end of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' sees Maximus dying shortly after the villain, then being reunited with his wife and son on his old farm in Hispania.
* ''Film/TheGreenMile'': Just before his execution, one of the prisoners expresses his hope that, if he is sincerely repentant, his afterlife in Heaven will be like this: that he will spend eternity reliving "the time that was happiest for him" -- which, in his case, was being married at eighteen, spending summer in the mountains with his young wife, making love every night, and then talking, sometimes until the sun came up.
%%* A spoilerific scene from ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' takes place in what appears to be King's Cross Station.
%%* At the end of the AIDS drama ''Longtime Companion'', the three protagonists are joined on the beach by everyone who died for a huge party fantasy sequence.
%%* ''Film/RequiemForADream'': One of the main character's mother basically goes to her HappyPlace and stays there, imagining her son marrying the girl of his dreams.
* In ''Film/TheShining'', dead people stay in the hotel forever as ghosts at a 1921 (1945 in the book) party. Of course, this isn't actually a ''reward'', as many of the ghosts died gruesome deaths in the hotel and are trapped repeating their crimes for all eternity (most notably one of its owners, Horace Derwent). In reality, they're little more than puppets for the GeniusLoci of the hotel itself.
* In ''Film/Titanic1997'', Rose apparently died and went to the Titanic as it once was. The DVD commentary said that it could be what happened, ''or'' that Rose is just dreaming it.
%%* The entirety of ''Film/WhatDreamsMayCome'' starring Robin Williams is related to, or references, this trope.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/TheFivePeopleYouMeetInHeaven'', heaven is a mixture of this and MundaneAfterlife: it's whatever place the person had the fondest memories in (or in some cases, the only memories).
* At the end of ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', the characters see the professor's old home, which had been destroyed. It turns out that they are in heaven ("The England within England, the real England"), where "no good thing is destroyed".
* Creator/HarryTurtledove's short story "The Last Reunion" starts with an old general returning to Richmond in 1932 for a United Confederate Veterans' reunion, and ends with him [[PassedInTheirSleep getting up from his cot]] to fight on the battlefields of his youth. Except when the day is done, the men from both sides stand back up, wounds forgotten, and pal it up all evening before replaying another battle the next day. A Nostalgic WarriorHeaven, in other words.
* ''Literature/TheLovelyBones'' mentions that each person's heaven is based on an individual vision of what made them happy in life. Susie's includes a high school (because she had eagerly looked forward to going to high school, but was murdered before she could do so) and her own duplex (because she wanted one when she was alive).
* ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'': In "Mars Is Heaven!", some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trick]].]]
* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': In ''The Bellmaker'', Finnbarr Galedeep dies taking the BigBad with him, then wakes up on the deck of his ship and heads out to sea.
* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Squirrelflight's Hope'', Squirrelflight and Leafpool find that [[{{Heaven}} StarClan]]'s territory is in the old forest where they were born; the Clans had to leave when humans destroyed it.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
%%* The end of ''Series/{{Casanova}}''.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' special "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]", the Eleventh Doctor has visions of his previous companion, Amy Pond, as he starts to regenerate. The inside of the TARDIS even briefly changes to her old home where they first met.
-->'''Amy:''' Raggedy Man... good night.
%%* The entirety of ''Series/LifeOnMars2006'' and the {{spinoff}} ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' is a continuous version of this trope, though it is somewhat subverted as it isn't explained how or why they end up there. It happens briefly in ''Ashes to Ashes'', as the protagonist Alex sees her dead parents. Only it is revealed in the final episode of ''Ashes to Ashes'' that everybody is dead, and their world is really a purgatory dreamed up by Gene Hunt to prepare them for heaven. So basically, two T.V. series where the premise is this trope.
%%* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': When [[spoiler:Eko]] dies, he is seen as his young, pre-warlord self, walking arm in arm with his beloved brother, [[spoiler:Yemi]].
* Heaven in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is like this -- every soul gets their own personal space where they get to relive their happiest memories. For the main characters, the fact that you only have illusions of your loved ones for company instead of actual people makes it far less happy. Dean describes Heaven as less of a paradise and "more like ''Film/TheMatrix''". [[spoiler:Come the GrandFinale, however, Jack (who has become the new God) changes this, tearing down the walls separating every soul into their own Heaven and allowing everyone to truly be together in a paradise of their own making.]]
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[[folder:Music]]
* Used in the music video for "Handlebars" by Music/{{Flobots}}, in which the main character is killed by his childhood friend, and the last shot is a recall of the first scene with him and his friend riding bikes.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/TheBlueBird'', the dead grandparents' Heaven is exactly like their home in life, and they work on their usual occupations. We're reminded that no one ever really dies, but they sleep most of the time, only [[AnAesop coming awake when people visit their graves or remember them]].
* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': When Valjean ascends to heaven, he joins the dead students, usually on the very barricade that they had died on. The 2012 film takes this even further by placing them on a giant barricade that crosses the square that Le Marche's hearse passes through where the revolution had started. Evidently, for them, heaven is a version of the world where the revolution had succeeded and all of Paris got to be free -- and this is reflected in the lyrics:
-->''They will live again in freedom in the garden of the lord\\
They will walk behind the plowshare, they will put away the sword\\
The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* After Gaspard is defeated in ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle'', you then see him as a child again, returning home to his mother in the cabin they once lived happily in.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Final Mix'' has Axel and Roxas meeting up one last time at the clock tower in Twilight Town before Axel fades away from existence [[spoiler:([[BackFromTheDead or so it seems]])]] and before Roxas becomes consumed by Sora.
%%* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' is a [[DarkWorld deliciously twisted]] version of this.
* ''VideoGame/ToTheMoon'' ends with [[spoiler:Johnny and River as children meeting one another in what's implied to be their first meeting place. Furthermore, the totally white ground also implies that Johnny and River ''fulfilled their promise to reunite on the Moon if they were ever separated'']].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/JackDavidHopkins'' focuses more on Hell and Earth than Heaven, but it is shown on occasion. While theoretically, people who actually get into Heaven are essentially given RealityWarper powers over their own pocket dimension, in practice, the Heavens we do see tend to mostly be Nostalgia Heavens, as people recreate their happier lives from Earth with the souls of friends and families. One horrifying aversion is the Heaven of a woman who loved Drip, a serial-killing rapist who became the Sin of Lust upon Death; she's created a nightmarish world like what she imagines Drip would consider Heaven, in the hopes that he'd hear of it and it would drive him to seek reincarnation for a chance to reach Heaven. Which, of course, means that all she's done is make a hell for herself, as even on the off chance that Drip would ever qualify for reincarnation, be reborn and die in salvation, he wouldn't be the kind of person who'd want a Heaven like that anymore.
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Roy finds his mother and baby brother living together in the LawfulGood afterlife. Both are stuck as nostalgic versions of themselves -- his mother as her 19-year-old self, his brother as the toddler he died as. Roy spends a lot of time engaged in nostalgic activities like eating his mom's cooking and playing with his brother. Roy also meets his dead grandfather, who's living in a different part of the afterlife.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "[[Recap/AmericanDadS6E9RapturesDelight Rapture's Delight]]" (which may or may not be canon) starts off with Stan complaining about church service being crowded by "fake" Christians who only show up during the holidays. To take his mind off it, Francine convinces Stan to have sex in a nearby janitor's closet. However, while they're gone, many characters, including Steve and Haley, are ascended into heaven during the Rapture, where it's revealed that everyone gets a personalized Heaven. Stan blames Francine for being left behind and shows willingness to abandon her on Earth to get into Heaven. Furious, she runs off with Jesus whom she meets in a diner. Years later, the Earth is a hellhole filled with demons, and Stan is alone and misses Francine. Jesus returns to Stan, seeking his help as Francine had been kidnapped by the anti-Christ. He helps rescue her, so she and Jesus get out alive, but Stan dies. He is then escorted into his personal heaven, and in a surprisingly heartwarming moment, it's back with his family on Earth (with the notable exception of a dead Klaus).
* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'': When [[TokenGoodTeammate Lula the Witch]] dies at the end of "[[Recap/Primal2019E8CovenOfTheDamned Coven of the Damned]]", she is reunited with her daughter in an afterlife resembling the field of flowers the two used to play in.
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