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** There is no soul and everything is in your brain. When the brain dies, you just dissappear.

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** There is no soul and everything is in your brain. When the brain dies, you just dissappear.disappear.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???There is always a mathematical "afterlife" of sorts that is so bizarre that it is debatable if it even counts. Because it describes everyone as a number, and is [[TimeAbyss older than all universes]]. And this includes all possible states including [[DummiedOut ones that are outright unreachable]]. So GoodNewsBadNews - it is impossible to be barred from the afterlife because it [[MindScrew existed even before you were born and regardless if you ever existed.]]

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* '''Exaggerated''': RetGone

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* '''Exaggerated''': RetGone'''Exaggerated''':
** RetGone
** DeaderThanDead
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** Souls can never be destroyed, but they can be banished to a FateWorseThanDeath.

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** Souls can never be destroyed, but they can be banished to a FateWorseThanDeath.rendered permanently unconscious.

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* '''Justified''': Consciousness and overall "existence" is tied to the soul, so if one loses their soul, they revert to a state of nothingness.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Consciousness and overall "existence" is tied to the soul, so if one loses their soul, they revert to a state of nothingness.nothingness.
** There is no soul and everything is in your brain. When the brain dies, you just dissappear.
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* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???A character [[FaintInShock passes out]]. Beyond just the narration calling it a "dead faint", it (or the character themself, after waking up) explicitly describes the faint as being a period of total, dreamless oblivion during which they are literally temporarily dead: knowing and feeling nothing, unaware of their own existence and unable to sense even the passage of time. Nonetheless, no outright confirmation of whether or not the writer (or the character) believes that this also applies to ''actual'' death.
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* '''Defied''': A character {{TimeTravel}}s to save their DeaderThanDead friend.

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* '''Defied''': A character {{TimeTravel}}s {{Time Travel}}s to save their DeaderThanDead friend.
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* '''Downplayed''': One can survive as long as they have either their brain or their soul. Having both destroyed results in this.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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One can survive as long as they have either their brain or their soul. Having both destroyed results in this.this.
** Souls can never be destroyed, but they can be banished to a FateWorseThanDeath.

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* Deconstructed: A character takes [[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme measures]] and kills many, to remove all [[WaveMotionGun Wave Motion Guns]] from the world because everyone else who dies to stop CessationOfExistence will be able to exist eternally in the afterlife.

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* Deconstructed: '''Deconstructed:'''
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A character takes [[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme measures]] and kills many, to remove all [[WaveMotionGun Wave Motion Guns]] from the world because everyone else who dies to stop CessationOfExistence will be able to exist eternally in the afterlife. afterlife.
** A character becomes so [[MortalityPhobia frightened of death]] that they spiral into a depressive breakdown and end up losing sight of what makes life worth living.
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* Deconstructed: A character takes [[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme measures]] and kills many, to remove all [[WaveMotionGun Wave Motion Guns]] from the world because everyone else who dies to stop CessationOfExistence will be able to exist eternally in the afterlife.
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* '''Defied''': A character [[TimeTravel]]s to save their DeaderThanDead friend.

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* '''Defied''': A character [[TimeTravel]]s {{TimeTravel}}s to save their DeaderThanDead friend.
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* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???A character [[TimeTravel]]s to save their DeaderThanDead friend.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "She's really dead this time? Like not dead, but... dead dead?"

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* '''Lampshaded''': "She's really dead this time? Like not dead, Not merely ''dead'', but... dead ''dead'' dead?"
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** Souls are indestructible and cannot be stopped from assuming a new body.

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** Souls are indestructible and cannot be stopped from assuming a new body.body or otherwise passing on to the afterlife.
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* '''Averted''': Resurrections never happen, and no-one knows where characters are while they're dead.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Resurrections never happen, and no-one knows where characters are while they're dead.dead.
** Souls are indestructible and cannot be stopped from assuming a new body.
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'''Basic Trope''': Dying in a way such that you get no afterlife, no reincarnation - nothing.
* '''Straight''': Most characters' souls can be raised BackFromTheDead, but getting hit by a WaveMotionGun causes one's soul to be utterly destroyed and their consciousness to come to an end.
* '''Exaggerated''': RetGone
* '''Downplayed''': One can survive as long as they have either their brain or their soul. Having both destroyed results in this.
* '''Justified''': Consciousness and overall "existence" is tied to the soul, so if one loses their soul, they revert to a state of nothingness.
* '''Inverted''': DeathIsCheap and/or DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist.
* '''Subverted''': If one is rejected from both reincarnation and ascension, they are drawn into their body from another timeline.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but it's eventually figured out that a NegativeSpaceWedgie can deny you the ability to transcend to another timeline, so dying from it with no access to reincarnation or an afterlife causes you to stop existing.
* '''Parodied''': Being killed by a GroinAttack is so humiliating that your soul will no longer be accepted into the afterlife.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Resurrections never happen, and no-one knows where characters are while they're dead.
* '''Enforced''': "If we can't let characters stay dead, we'll be OpeningACanOfClones. Or, worse, we could succumb to TheChrisCarterEffect, what with the {{Big Bad}}'s reincarnations. We need some way for characters to be KilledOffForReal."
* '''Lampshaded''': "She's really dead this time? Like not dead, but... dead dead?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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