"You know, it's not so much an afterlife, more a sort of après-vie."
— Arthur Dent, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Tropes relating to the afterlife.
Humans have often speculated what fate, if any, awaits them after death. This has been depicted in countless different ways in fiction (not to mention religion and philosophy), ranging from eternal paradise to fiery hellscapes to complete nothingness.
Almost all religions have a belief that you go somewhere after you die, but almost none of them are the same. Some say you go to Heaven, some say you burn in Hell, some say you're reincarnated as a small angry six inch tall blue man. The important part is, that this is a place that you go, after you die.
Spoiler warning: many of these tropes detail major spoilers about characters' fates.
Tropes:
- Afterlife Antechamber
- Afterlife Express
- Artificial Afterlife
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
- Backup from Otherworld
- Barred from the Afterlife
- Celestial Bureaucracy
- Dead to Begin With
- Death Amnesia
- Defector from Paradise
- The Ferry Man
- Heaven and Hell
- Heaven Seeker
- Hell of a Heaven
- Hell Seeker
- Infernal Paradise
- Inn Between the Worlds
- Judgement of the Dead
- The Lifestream
- Mistaken for Afterlife
- Mundane Afterlife
- The Nothing After Death
- Offscreen Afterlife
- Only One Afterlife
- Personalized Afterlife
- Psychopomp
- Refusing Paradise
- Reincarnation
- Remember the Dead
- Rerouted from Heaven
- Rescued from the Underworld
- Species-Specific Afterlife
- Spirit World
- Taking Over Heaven
- Together in Death
- The Underworld
- Unfinished Business
- Whodunnit to Me?
- Winged Soul Flies Off at Death
- You Are Worth Hell
