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The key point is that it involves the person dying (or having a near death experience) and going to a heaven-like place. [[Sister Trope]] to [[Died Happily Ever After]] comparable to [[Lost Love Montage]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In episode 29 of ''[[
* The end of last episode of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' if you get past the [[Mind Screw]] location.
* When {{spoiler|Kakashi}} dies in ''[[Naruto]]'', he sees his Sensei and old teammates again.
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* This was also the plot in ''[[The Shining]],'' where dead people stay in the hotel forever as ghosts at a 1921 (1945 in the book) party.
* The end of ''[[Gladiator]]''.
* A spoilerific scene from ''[[Harry Potter and
* The entirety of ''[[What Dreams May Come]]'' starring Robin Williams is related to, or references, this trope.
* 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.
* ''[[
* 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.
* ''[[Requiem for
== [[Literature]] ==
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* When Eko dies on ''[[Lost]]'', he is seen as his young, pre-warlord self, walking arm in arm with his beloved brother, Yemi.
** {{spoiler|The whole series ends like this, with the main characters crossing over to a "place you made together, so you could find each other" before all meeting up, regaining their memories of their lives, and moving on together into whatever is next. }}
* The whole series of ''[[Life On Mars]]'' (in the 1970s) and the [[Spin
* The end of [[Russell T. Davies]]' ''[[Casanova (TV series)|Casanova]]''.
* Heaven on ''[[Supernatural]]'' is like this, but because you become distracted by the projections of your friends/family, instead of actually getting to meet up with your loved ones, the characters who find out are decidedly unhappy. They describe Heaven as less of a paradise and "more like ''[[The Matrix]]''".
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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[[Category:Afterlife Tropes]]
[[Category:Nostalgia Heaven]]
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