Afterlife Tropes

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.

By its very nature, many of these tropes will have major spoilers about character fates.

Related tropes and indices:
 * Death Tropes
 * Resurrection Tropes

Tropes:

 * Afterlife Antechamber
 * Cessation of Existence
 * Dead to Begin With
 * Death Amnesia
 * Heaven
 * Celestial Bureaucracy
 * Fluffy Cloud Heaven
 * Nostalgia Heaven
 * Stairway to Heaven
 * Hell
 * Fire and Brimstone Hell
 * Bloody Bowels of Hell
 * Ironic Hell
 * Circles of Hell
 * To Hell and Back
 * Rescued From Purgatory
 * Like a Badass Out of Hell
 * You Are Worth Hell
 * Hellevator
 * Mundane Afterlife
 * The Nothing After Death
 * Offscreen Afterlife
 * Psychopomp
 * Afterlife Express
 * The Grim Reaper
 * Valkyries
 * Refusing Paradise
 * Reincarnation
 * Self-Inflicted Hell
 * Together in Death